Anger is an emotion that can arise around a perceived wrong, frustration, obstruction or crossed boundary.
It can make something difficult to ignore. It doesn’t always arrive with impeccable instructions about what to do next.
Are you angry about the request, or about agreeing again?
Someone asks for a favour. You say yes. Then you spend the evening furious that they asked.
Perhaps the request was inconsiderate. Perhaps you felt unable to refuse. Both may need attention. Blaming only them leaves your answer unexplored; blaming only yourself erases what they did.
You can take anger seriously without making the loudest response the wisest one. What needs naming? A repeated arrangement? A particular remark? A limit you haven’t yet put into words?
The Sensual Hero’s Journey gives feelings and bodily responses a place in its guided seven-day books. You don’t have to become endlessly pleasant to be growing.
Resentment explores anger that keeps returning to an unresolved cost. Boundaries helps turn a general "I’ve had enough" into something another person can understand.
Noba’s Functions of Emotions examines what emotions help us notice and do. It offers useful background for respecting anger’s information without treating it as a complete plan of action.