do you have any latent anger?

[Cynthia]

this may seem like a strange question to ask, but do you have latent anger?

things about our society that piss you off, and maybe someone in your family that just irks you to be around ...
and I guess we can notice this when new instances come up, but my question is more to latent anger that has been around for a while, and that really does not get addressed (or one does not know the means - the 'how' - to deal with that low level of anger). It's just 'there' and we sort of know that certain things can set it off.

Short answer: yes
Longer answer: the way I was raised, anger became my 'go to' emotion - appropriate for any and all circumstances.

Then I learned that anger made things worse so I went into my Spock phase. Then I learned this, also, didn't get me what I wanted because 1) it wasn't authentic, and 2) like stepping on a balloon, the hurt and/or anger always came out in an unpredictable situation.

So I entered my 'authentic' phase. I got better at how/when/where I expressed strong emotions (like anger) but that only dealt with the expression not the root of the emotion.

So the past couple years or so I've been actively working to become aware of strong emotions when triggered and then put a pause in between the trigger and the expression to be in the Now, to ask myself Who is feeling this emotion. Most often the answer is the Ego, or what Eckhart Tolle calls the painbody. When I have been able to do this I find the anger/hurt just dissipates.

Being in the Now has also helped me forgive myself and some family members which means I most often feel compassion, rather than anger, for them. Still working on that forgiveness with a couple other family members. In the meantime, that's where the majority of my latent anger resides.