Improve Family Relationships Published Nov. 12, 2009 By Christopher Marble Airman and Family Readiness Center chief FAIRCHILD AIR FORCE BASE, Wash. -- During the Year of the Air Force Family, take time to enhance interpersonal skills to improve relationships and overall quality of life. Anger is just one of many emotions we have. Often misunderstood and sometimes confused with or leading to hostile or overly aggressive behavior. To successfully manage angry feelings we must learn how to appropriately communicate what we are feeling; for example, can you distinguish between low intensity levels of anger defined as aroused, annoyed or irritated and higher intensity levels of anger such as frenzied, vicious or furious? If you can, then you are one step closer to managing your anger. Anger management is continually developing and refining skills to successfully manage your anger. You must know and understand your physiological responses, anger triggers and patterns. When you become more aware of these things coupled with appropriate adaptive behaviors your quality of life will improve. Anger is a normal, healthy human emotion. Anger is often secondary to other emotions. Compare anger as an emotion to our behavior when we are angry. Anger should not be dismissed. Anger tells us how we feel about an event or situation. How do you behave when you get angry? Want to know more? Call the A&FRC at 247-2246.