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A Passive Aggressive Marriage Breaking Point

People have different times to process emotional contents…when one person is fast to acknowledge that for them there is a need to stop interactions and protect themselves, other person could still go on and deny their personal hurt a bit longer. There is also a gender difference; where women are trained to use self-examination as [...]

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 [...]

Passive Aggressive Attachment

Passive aggressive behavior from a husband is not a reaction to the present wife or the present relationship; rather, it is a learned model of interpersonal attachment, wired in a person’s brain early in life. It is a pattern learned from the interaction with the mother or caretaker, who taught him in his first year [...]

How passive aggressive can you be?

There is a long standing conversation about husbands and wives having a difference of opinion… about the husband being passive aggressive, no less! It goes more or less like this: She complains; he denies all responsibility; She suffers; he ignores her suffering and walks away; She gets educated or a therapist; he laughs at them; [...]

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