I’m flowing with tears trying to hold them back as I am writing this right now and I’m a straight guy so I think that says a lot. My dad and I just had an argument.

I was extremely stressed today physically and mentally, because of the following reasons:

1) I was in the gym for the first time yesterday, so my body was in a state of fatigue, 2) when I came home from looking for commercial spaces, I just found my bed messed up by my little brother, 3) then I was very tired from doing the dishes(because my siblings didn’t clean theirs), cleaning the kitchen sink, and doing my laundry.

While I was very tired and stressed from doing all these, my dad suddenly came up to me to ask where was the telephone(an old telephone from 3 years ago that no one will ever use). I told him that I didn’t know and he said “So you don’t care about this house?” And then, I snapped and I unconsciously raised my voice towards him which made him REAL MAD.

I mean I just did household chores and suddenly he asks me if I dont care about the house? Ofcourse I snapped. The stress throughout the day just built up.

And ofcourse, I told my side to him hoping that he would understand.

And you know what he said, “Even if you’re stress and tired and annoyed and angry and feeling very emotional, never raise your voice towards your parent because you’re just my child, you are just a child.”

How do i even control my built up emotions in the moment so I won’t be able to raise my voice?

Just please tell me what to do in these situations because these just don’t happens once.