Tag Archives: disengaged feeling

His Silence Can Hurt Your Marriage!

February 28, 2011 – 3:36 pm

When you have a fight with your spouse, you can use different strategies to get your point across. You can yell, you can calmly explain your point of view, or if you are feeling misunderstood, offended or upset you can withdraw into stony silence. If we look at long term impact of these different communication [...]

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Having A Passive Aggressive Valentine? Go Figure!

February 9, 2011 – 3:39 pm

Everybody wants to have a happy Valentine’s Day with their loved one, and yet if you have marital problems, this seemingly simple aspiration seems to become a vast challenge, even a test. How could you have a good Valentine’s Day if your husband is often sulking and has a tendency to forget making plans or [...]

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Stop confusing your brain!

January 21, 2011 – 3:23 pm

Being in an intimate relationship with a passive aggressive person creates a paradox – while you are together to create and encourage a romantic relationship, his passive aggression urges him to avoid intimacy and withdraw from connection. When he shuts down and turns away from you, it can feel as if you’re the only one [...]

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Questions and Answers about Passive Aggressive behaviors

January 4, 2011 – 11:03 am

Sometimes, we need to share ideas with other people as to understand completely some conflictive issues…getting feedback helps us put issues in perspective. In this blog, we usually propose to you some texts that you can read and think about by yourself… Now, this is a different take: you have here a dialogue with questions [...]

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Confronting a Passive Aggressive Partner

December 17, 2010 – 12:06 pm

When presented with passive aggressive behavior from your partner, your first instinct might be to confront them, to lay it all out on the table. This is a tricky business; if the situation is handled improperly, your partner will most likely sulk, give you the silent treatment, or simply walk away, leaving you empty-handed and [...]

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