Ticking Timebomb

People who are in proximity to each other and who are constantly hurting each other - say through emotional abuse - are basically generating a constant stream of unresolved resentments, which tend to chain together and are evoked all at once upon each fresh insult, and this chain seems to even link back to previous traumas and indignations. The reactions get deeper and nastier as time goes on. I imagine this accounts somewhat for the intense acridity of failed relationships.