About To Send An Angry Email? Please Do This 1 Thing Before You Hit 'Send.'

Who among us has not written an angry email?

Whether we’re letting an ex know how they’ve done us wrong or complaining to the dry cleaner about ruining our favorite shirt, most of us have found ourselves rushing to our keyboards at one time or another to give someone a piece of our minds.

But firing off a strongly worded screed isn’t always the best course of action, and there’s one thing you should ask yourself before you hit “send.”

“Think about the intent. Why are you sending it? What’s the goal?” Ryan Martin, better know as the Anger Professor, recently told us — Raj Punjabi and Noah Michelson, the co-hosts of HuffPost’s “Am I Doing It Wrong?” podcast.

“If the goal is literally just to tell someone how angry you are or to make them feel bad in some way, think about whether or not that’s going to get you where you want to go in the long run.”

Once you know what your intent is, you should make sure that everything you’re writing is framed around this goal, according to Martin, a psychology professor and an associate dean for the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.

“A lot of times, making [the email recipient] angry as part of that angry email is probably not going to help you get to that goal,” he said.

He also advised giving yourself a little time to decide if you want to send your draft… to the trash.

“One of the best parts about email versus an in-person interaction is that you’ve got time,” said Martin, the author of “How To Deal With Angry People” and “Why We Get Mad: How To Use Your Anger for Positive Change.”

“So you can give yourself 10 minutes to sort of let yourself cool down, and then reread it and decide if you want to send it still,” he said. “You can