Tag Archives: disengaged feeling

Defending yourself from love with passive aggression?

May 25, 2011 – 5:54 pm

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 [...]

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How passive aggressive can you be?

May 13, 2011 – 3:51 pm

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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Passive Aggression and Childhood Attachment

May 10, 2011 – 10:47 pm

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 [...]

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How Does Passive Aggression Kill Communication?

April 22, 2011 – 10:52 am

How does passive aggression kill the communication and love in a relationship? Wives of passive aggressive husbands share their stories. He has done a lot of the following behaviors to me: Saying he will do something and not doing it; Doing something half-assed, and then blaming me for attacking him when I confront him; Never [...]

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Repair work in a marriage is easy!

April 1, 2011 – 4:42 pm

In some situations, when coaching is really the necessary tool to overcome being stuck in marital conflict, we can see that even passive aggressive husbands appreciate having an opportunity to play in a new, honest way. Having the opportunity to learn new behaviors, -and the constant support of a conflict coach-, some husbands discover that [...]

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