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Explosive Anger: My Journey - Dave Wilson

FamilyLife Today®

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4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Does explosive anger—your own or your spouse’s—have you concerned? FamilyLife Today hosts Dave and Ann Wilson can relate. On today's episode, they discuss Dave’s unresolved childhood trauma and other issues, which burst into uncontrollable rage and left his family reeling. Dave shares his slow path out of chronic anger, into healing—and how eventually, he found the ability to forgive and be forgiven.

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0:00.0

I'm going to punch somebody in the face right now.

0:02.5

Are you in a bad mood today?

0:05.8

I might be.

0:08.2

How honestly want me to be.

0:10.3

This is going to be really interesting because we've had a rough morning.

0:17.2

You want to talk about anger?

0:19.2

I figured I might as to get angry and, you know, display the emotion we're going to talk about. I guess it's appropriate. But I remember, I think we'd been married about four years. We were in seminary and we were wallpapering. We're flipping a house in seminary. I do not remember this. You don't? I remember the house. Yeah. I don't know what room. So we're in a bathroom

0:40.5

and I've been wallpapering all day and we're wanting to get it done quickly. So you came in and you go,

0:46.0

I'll help you. I'm like, great. So you're helping me. You've never done it before and you start telling

0:51.3

me what to do and how I'm doing it all wrong. I never did that.

0:54.5

Totally did it. So then you're like, just watch this and you do it and you you rip the entire like

1:02.5

this whole page of like not a page, but a whole strip of wallpaper. And you are so mad. And somehow

1:10.7

it was my fault. Of course. And so I'm like my fault of course and so I'm like I looked at you

1:14.7

I'm like I'm not even going to do this with you you can do it all by yourself if you're going to be

1:18.2

like that and that how many times have you said that in our marriage but that's I feel like that

1:26.2

started this journey for about maybe four or five years.

1:29.6

Of me being angry.

1:30.6

Yes.

1:31.2

And I know it all.

1:32.2

And you're super chill when we were dating.

1:35.3

And so I'm like, who's this guy that I'm married to?

1:37.9

But do you think that's true that you went through a real anger time?

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