A little verbal abuse - a little stress from working all day and still having to keep the house up - no romance - then add small children who are totally draining + a critical mother in law and you have made a " sour grape" my man. :).
It is similar to adding butter-milk in warm milk. After few hours it will become curd. Like that.
We should first learn, I think, how not to add "bitterness". Bitterness may be that substance.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.