I have never been good at hanging up on people, ever, no matter why or what, I just wasn't raised to hang up or be impolite in any way. So during the divorce my ex, for about 10 years, he was horrible and would threaten me or tell me he wouldn't follow the court order and how he would hurt our kids to get his way...I would get so weak and try not to show the boys that I was hurt by what was said. One day my teenage boy took me aside. This was when we had land lines with sturdy phones. He said, 'Look at this, when dad is dad, you SLAM SLAM SLAM the phone against the wall with all your might, THEN you hang up.' The next time it happened, I did, and I felt much better and the boys felt better too because I was handling the stress much better. Then we all kind of giggled and life was a little better. I'm not nearly as weak now. I shut down phone calls within seconds and never feel a pinch of guilt at being impolite.