Elizabeth,
This is why you have cyber friends. You can vent all you want or need to and we understand.
I surprised my two sons when they were about 3 1/2 years old and 20 months old and I gave myself a time-out. They did not know that mommy could do that to herself. I locked myself in the bathroom for 10 minutes (all the doors to the house were locked so no one could escape) and read a book. At that point in my life reading was something I did for someone else. Felt so good.
Everything was better after that.
Feel better and feel free to vent with your friends.
All together now a pre-holiday AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!
Now I can go get started on decorating the house for Christmas.
Alice in Utah