February 25, 2010 – 1:49 pm
Balancing trust with self-preservation is a very difficult balancing act….If you want to keep your trust on your husband’s intentions to treat you well and always defend your interests, then you can’t be second-guessing if he is doing passive aggression against you, right?
If you decide that is impossible to be for ever watchful, and then [...]
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Tagged blame, confusion, emotional dependence, expectations, frustrated, hidden anger, hurt, loneliness, love, passive aggressive marriage, rejection, sabotaging
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February 17, 2010 – 7:34 pm
In a very kind letter, Rosy said:
“In my own way to learn detachment, there were several moments I do remember as very important for me:
The first thing I decided to do: I completely stopped opening a conversation with him about the future of our relationship.
Then, I completely stopped touching him or getting near him [...]
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Tagged confusion, emotional dependence, expectations, frustrated, hidden anger, isolation, loneliness, passive aggressive behavior, Passive Aggressive Husband, passive aggressive marriage, resentment, sabotaging, silence, unhappiness
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February 3, 2010 – 3:23 pm
Let me tell you something…the deep wish under all this Valentine’s Day claptrap is something we don’t dare to mention the rest of the year:
TO HAVE A SECURE BUT EXCITING LOVE RELATIONSHIP!
How do you combine the two things?
Secure is boring….exciting is dangerous….so what gives?
For the rest of us, ensconced in a healthy but boring routine, [...]
February 3, 2010 – 2:29 pm
From all the correspondence, postings and requests we receive, the overwhelming majority are desperate wives complaining about their husbands. We have initiated this blog, which reaches sometimes 500 hits a day, to help those wives find ways of preserving their marriages and diminish or control the relationship pain so as to get to a place [...]
Posted in Passive Aggressive Husband, assertiveness, impact of passive aggression, passive aggressive behavior, passive aggressive definition, passive aggressive personality
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Tagged cold shoulder, communication, disengaged feeling, emotional dependence, frustrated, passive aggressive marriage, passive aggressive wife, put downs, rejection, resentment, silent partner, unhappiness
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August 27, 2009 – 11:39 am
The divide between emotional and rational styles to manage disputes are the main hidden factors of our conflicts. The lenses (emotional or rational) we apply to manage a confrontation with our loved one is usually a main contributor to the communication gap we produce and suffer.
Here is an online conversation between a poster in a [...]