Telephone
All too often people use the telephone not to communicate but to destroy communication. The angry spouse may call to scream insults or make hang-up calls.
The first case is the easiest to deal with – hang up. If you choose to stay on the telephone and to listen to the rude jerk that called, then you have made a bad choice. You can change that choice by simply hanging up; the sooner the better.
Hang-up calls are tough. Once you pick up the telephone you have lost. The answer is screen your calls, and you can return the calls of the people you want to talk to. If the jerk calls and curses at you over an answering machine, we can bring that tape to court for the judge to hear.
If the other side is abusing you with the telephone, keep a calendar with the calls documented by date, time, and number. You have the legal right to record phone calls that you are a party to.