Tag Archives: detachment

The Passive Aggressive Dance

January 20, 2012 – 3:20 pm

WE ARE STUCK IN THIS DANCE: HERS HIS I feel let down, isolated, and lonely. If I  confront you to get you to see what is hurting me and come back to me.. It Just Drives You Away, You became defensive and justify yourself.   If I despair, you retreat even more Then I get [...]

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How to recover your life after a passive aggressive marriage?

November 4, 2011 – 10:12 am

When readers of this blog accept our standing invitation to have a free coaching session, they bring their own stories. Some of them are easier to hear and offer support to; others are heart wrenching. Which stories are the saddest? The ones that present a woman past her fifties, who has spent most of her [...]

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Women like you are taking the passive aggressive test: you are not alone!

September 27, 2011 – 9:44 pm

While you were thinking that you were doing this “test taking” by yourself, hiding under a fake male name, or your initials, You were not alone! It was really surprising for us to begin receiving letters from the wives, just telling about their experience taking the test! Yes, they are taking the test in place [...]

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A Passive Aggressive Marriage Breaking Point

August 30, 2011 – 8:00 am

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 [...]

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The Three C’s of Passive Aggression

July 15, 2011 – 11:37 am

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, [...]

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