The mother may be angry at her husband but afraid to express her anger for fear he will leave her. The husband may feel rage that he has been passed over for promotion too many times but his fear of his boss makes him seek other targets for his pent up anger. Domestic violence leaves a terrible trail of broken lives. These are the cases we don't hear about, the people who suffer in private, behind closed doors. The cases we do hear about, the women who murder their abusers, for example, demonstrate another facet of anger, action and reaction.
Some people refuse to get visibly angry.
Instead, they focus their anger on strangers or helpless animals. One man reacted to a breakup with his girlfriend by kicking his cat halfway across his yard. He never once raised his voice in anger. He also felt no remorse about badly injuring the cat. Okay, so he called me stupid, among other things, and generated this week's feature.