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Passive Aggressive Attachment

June 7, 2011 – 1:57 pm

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 [...]

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Passive Aggression: Stop Welcoming It Home!

March 21, 2011 – 4:06 pm

So you are wondering how you ended up getting involved with a man that you now discover to be passive aggressive… Why, if you loved and love yourself, if you had a strong self-esteem, did you wind up with a man who might claim that he loves you, but whose actions (or lack thereof!) state [...]

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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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Passive Aggressive Conflicts: Words Women Use

October 12, 2010 – 1:38 pm

Women in passive aggressive relationships, or PA women themselves, often develop a vocabulary specific to their situation. This vocabulary, innocent as it appears, can cause numerous communication problems between the PA and the partner trying to handle them. Fine – An “I give up” way to quickly end an argument. Cliche and used often in [...]

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Is he always fighting against your ideas?

September 3, 2010 – 10:52 am

When I feel that he is “Always Fighting against My Ideas,” the dream I’m yearning for is… team work. There were some responses (58%) telling about this dream situation: 1. “My dream is to feel that I am half of a whole: he supports me, I support him, and together we make one whole couple [...]

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