I'm happy to share my wisdom with you.

[LuckyCharms]

If you are ever in a heated argument with your significant other, and their anger escalates to the boiling point, the best thing to say is: "Calm down, relax already"!

This will diffuse the situation immediately.

If I think of any more things that will help you out, I will let you know.

[Sanity Claws]

1. Aha. So that is it.

I try to defuse the situation but you diffuse the situation.
Perhaps we could also try to confuse the situation or suffuse it.

[LuckyCharms]

2. Calm down, relax already!

[samnsara]

3. aaaccckkk no!!! when my SO says that I wanna smack him. its like..

....a father telling me to calm down...'don't get hysterical, settle down..'

[LuckyCharms]

5. C'mon, you're over-reacting. Settle down.

[genxlib]

4. Your couch must be very comfortable

[LuckyCharms]

6. Just relax about my couch.

[rock]

7. Been reading Trump Self-help Books, have we?

[LuckyCharms]

8. Relax. Calm down. n/t

[rock]

9. Simma daun nau

[True Dough]

20. I still use that line on occasion!

The wife and I are SNL fans so she gets a kick out of it. Not sure if that's where it originated, but that's the association we have with the expression.

[haele]

10. Hope you have anything breakable placed far away.

or are prepared to sit down and apologize nod for a half hour or so until it either blows over or your SO leaves in fury with the good car.

If it really is serious, my go to is - "hon, We're both angry here and I can't seem to see things straight - do you want us to stop for a moment and I'll make a couple cups of tea so we can think on this?"

Haele

[LuckyCharms]

11. I think it would just be easier to tell them they are overreacting and to calm down.

[haele]

12. Well, that solidifies the direction of the relationship, for sure.

Sorry about the touch of serious, just finished listening to my "emotional maturity stuck at 13" stepdaughter talking herself down from "killing" her equally childish slacker husband for the seventh time this week. Mute is very much your friend when you're trying to get work done.

I so enjoy co-dependent relationships.

Haele

[LuckyCharms]

13. Oh man, I don't envy you.

I'm sure you offered some good advice.

If you ever need someone who is emotionally immature also to talk to her, I'd be happy to help.

[haele]

14. Oh, no need. The advice she follows is what she gets from Facebook.

Her "Young Moms" group is particularly good at advice - in relationships, finance, and what to expect out of life when you want to pretend you're middle class instead of working poor.


Haele

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

18. Haha. That's so true. My SO telling me to calm down always raises my blood pressure and my voice!

It's a joke with us now. He'll say, "I wonder if there's any possibility you might consider calming down." I'll scream, "What the fuck makes you think I need to calm down! Why don't you calm down!" Or similar silly exchanges. Then we laugh uproariously.

I actually love your, "We're both angry here and I can't seem to see things straight - do you want us to stop for a moment and I'll make a couple cups of tea so we can think on this?" I'll have to teach that to my SO!

[Leith]

15. Relax!

[LuckyCharms]

16. Her delivery would be better if she calmed down a little.

[fleur-de-lisa]

17. LOL!

I'm very calm, LuckyCharms, so don't tell me to f*cking RELAX, okay? Or this thread might escalate to the f*cking BOILING POINT!

[LuckyCharms]

19. OK OK just cal...

nevermind.