Her temper tantrums are something I can relate to, but my son's are more baffling to me.
"She got attention by losing her temper, " said Small, who added that the couple had separated more than once.
Everybody struggles to maintain his or her temper, knowing that even the tightest relationship can dissolve into a hysterical screaming match after 36 hours without sleep.
At Wimbledon in June her image suffered a further blow when she lost her temper in an interview with a BBC reporter who suggested she needed to refocus on her game.
Other women have been more confrontational in the face of obstacles: One entrepreneur, who had started a business in 1990, lost her temper when confronted with a "No Women Allowed" sign in a government department, and ripped the sign off the door.
Though famed for her charm and her powers of persuasion, she did not always temper her style.
She may be ready to temper her views on austerity, but bringing down deficits and debts remains her priority.
Many expect, perhaps too optimistically, that France's new leader will convince Angela Merkel of Germany to temper her obsession with austerity in the European economy.
And unlike Hillary Clinton, who blustered at the senators and said, what difference does it make, why does it matter, which frankly shocked me because the senators were cowed by her outburst of temper.
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He denied shaking her in a fit of temper, claiming she fell off a stool she was standing on.
He said the prosecution did not believe it was a planned murder, but "when he was there he lost his temper" and attacked her during a row.
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In a spasm of temper Yvonne swung around and opened her hand, flinging away into the river something tiny that gave out one glint of light before it was swallowed without a splash, the water healing instantly behind it.
His wife says the nightmarish experience gave her husband a love for life and not the bad temper that has been alleged in recent news reports.
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