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How would you react?

You're at home and people within your household start arguing.

This may include doors slamming, shouting, swearing and you hear something like "GET OFF ME!"


What would you do?
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CrazyMusicLover · 31-35
I always try to stay out of any argument, leave the room or even the place if needed.
samueltyler2 · 80-89, M
@CrazyMusicLover but GET OFF ME, is more than just an argument, it is a physical altercation.
CrazyMusicLover · 31-35
@samueltyler2 Yeah, true. Idk, I've never been in such situation.
samueltyler2 · 80-89, M
@CrazyMusicLover nor have i, but i could not just walk away. There was a famous case in NY Cory many years ago in which a woman was murdered by repeated stabbings, she was yelling for help and no one even so much as called the police.
Mellowgirl · 31-35, F
@CrazyMusicLover have you ever experienced something before where by you felt powerless? Or were worse off?
Mellowgirl · 31-35, F
@samueltyler2 sad... I wonder if people have become numb to violence
samueltyler2 · 80-89, M
@Mellowgirl on the US certainly. The language used today is shocking
CrazyMusicLover · 31-35
@Mellowgirl Yes but you say at home so I applied it to situations likely to happen here.
Mellowgirl · 31-35, F
@CrazyMusicLover that's fine I was just asking a follow up question?
Because you said you stay out of any argument and or leave the room if needed so I wondered if you had an experience before that made you feel like that was the safest thing to do .
CrazyMusicLover · 31-35
@Mellowgirl My experience was that then all the anger in the room was directed at me. It's not that I'd feel unsafe but it taught me to rather not interfere because then I might be the one who gets all the shit in the end. I'd meddle in and suddenly the subject changes and I'm the one who is yelled at by the both sides for an entirely different reason, like the original problem was already forgotten.
Mellowgirl · 31-35, F
@CrazyMusicLover I completely understand where you are coming from with that perspective.
People talk about bravery and having the courage when an issue occurs. But it is entirely true you can end up in a situation whereby it then turns on you.