Originally Posted by
3littlebirds 
I don't know how to not be bitter. I know that sometimes when I get angry I clean furiously lol. But that's only in the moment. I don't want to think about all the anger, but I don't want to bury it either. This is a hard road when you're used to ignoring all the bad things.
I do the similar stuff in anger sometimes - rabid cleaning, exhausting exercise, locking myself in a dark closet & screaming until I have let it all out. My favorites are throwing rocks into water or breaking glass.
Here are a couple of older posts with some great input on anger:
http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...-do-anger.html http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...-good-bad.html