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The Three C’s of Passive Aggression

When doing research about what attachment theory tells us about the quality of relationships, as well as its potential for emotional needs satisfaction, what we usually find is that childhood experiences have a very important role in our lives. Sometimes we hear about the challenges that passive aggression and other defensive behaviors have on marriages, [...]

Relationship repair: The anger you hear is her pain

When disputes are frequent and people don’t bother even listening to the other side, the gap widens and relationships get sour. Hatred and contempt fill the gap with negative emotions difficult to dilute. You can be tempted to fight fire with fire and answer perceived aggressions with more aggression. We need to remember that each [...]

Defending yourself from love with passive aggression?

In this dance of connection and isolation named marriage, it is possible to see that the two people have different models to get together…basically how near can you get to people without fearing to be swallowed by the relationship? The national assumption about us being independent individuals crashes with the task of forming a new [...]

Passive Aggression and Childhood Attachment

Childhood early experiences leave a permanent mark in our brains; they become our stories, the basis for our identities, and later on they shape our adult relationships because of our biological wiring. This is not a common idea because we basically tend to think of ourselves as independent, self-reliant individuals and this is a very strong [...]

Passive Aggression Abuses Your Rights

There are many ways in which people use power to control and abuse others. This is especially true of passive aggressive behavior, which is often about making the PA look his best, while taking power from others and making them look or feel bad. Which of these ways is your passive aggressive husband using to [...]

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