Background - -  "This particular dog's mission in life is to be quiet at night, be nice, sweet. Let the nice family sleep.  But! Instead of sleeping .....he delights in whining, barking and misbehaving....... "

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OK so The family members wake up ... they kindly and lovingly try and hush the dog back to sleep.
Good.


Five minutes later, dog is whining and misbehaving again. 
Everyone getting mad with the dog, yelling at him
Dog is quiet.



Another ten minutes pass - uh oh whining and acting up again. 
Family members yelling and smack dog to shut him up
Dog quiet.

For now.


Our amazingly smart dog builds up courage again... whining and barking and screeching, acting out
Dog owner going blue in the face - smack smack smack!


Dog quiet....dog getting brave.... dog misbehaving again...... smack smack REPEAT RepEAT REPEAT


And finally!  ....... dog removed from the nice house into the garage.

(Dog no longer bothers to whine anymore, problem solved :-))

Your story seems a little depressing, no offense. What I mean by that is that if you think of yourself as the dog in that story, you're going to have to deal with a lot of guilt, and guilt won't fix our problems. For years before I found this site, every time I would fall, I would feel so guilty that I would try to find something that I could just punch and get all my frustration out, but that didn't help. that only made it worse. I had to realize that guilt didn't make me stronger in this battle. I hope you're not letting guilt get at you, because everyone on this site is an amazing person, just from the fact that we choose to be here. I apologize if I misunderstood the point of your story, but either way, keep fighting man. The GYE community is there for you.

I think 5770 was kicked out. Sorry man.

Dog's don't bark for nothing
Somethings worrying the dog.

If the dog's barking is only getting it hurt, then I think it's good for the dog to be away from the people  that are trying to punish the dog for barking (for a little while)...
So that the dog can heal a little, so that tension can subside.

The dog should however find another friend dog that speaks the same language, so that the reason it is barking can be determined and sorted out.

Good thing you are not a dog. You have the power of speech and the ability to write.
Let your emotions subside and write everything down and/or speak to a friend.
I think your problems have a solution, but that everyone's been too emotional to get to the root of the issues.

Btw, I don't mind if you scream and shout in my direction.