Quick one today.
Everyone has a reliable trigger. The one thing that gets you every single time, even when you know it's coming.
For some people, it's being talked over. For others, it's being told to calm down (a personal favourite, because it has never once in human history worked).
Traffic.
Being ignored.
A certain tone of voice.
The dishwasher was stacked wrong, apparently.
Mine, after 20 years of working on this? I still feel it when someone dismisses something I've put real effort into.
Knowing your most reliable trigger matters because a trigger you can name is a trigger you can see coming. And a trigger you can see coming loses half its power.
So, comments open: what's the one that always gets you? No judgment here, and I'd bet money someone else shares yours.