February 17, 2010 – 7:34 pm
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!In a very kind letter, Rosy said:
“In my own way to learn detachment, there were several moments I do remember as very important for me:
The first thing I decided to do: I completely stopped opening a conversation with him [...]
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Posted in Passive Aggressive Husband, assertiveness
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Also tagged confusion, emotional dependence, expectations, frustrated, hidden anger, isolation, loneliness, passive aggressive behavior, passive aggressive marriage, resentment, sabotaging, silence, unhappiness
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January 18, 2010 – 1:25 am
We have been talking about the difficult skills of “detaching” from the emotional impact caused by the passive aggression.
Detaching is observing the behavior without showing a lot of emotion. If you do not react strongly, you do not give the passive aggressive person the emotional control, nor do you give them the opportunity to turn the [...]
December 7, 2009 – 4:13 pm
Is it possible for you to do something to help your passive aggressive husband? It takes courage to go beyond the frustration and anger to see him as a good person trapped in his own old fears…and ignore the thousand frustrations he makes you go through every day.
If you are not extremely angry with him, [...]
August 27, 2009 – 11:39 am
The divide between emotional and rational styles to manage disputes are the main hidden factors of our conflicts. The lenses (emotional or rational) we apply to manage a confrontation with our loved one is usually a main contributor to the communication gap we produce and suffer.
Here is an online conversation between a poster in a [...]
August 26, 2009 – 11:08 am
After doing a lot of online research, and having strong arguments with yourself, you had arrived to some unwanted conclusion, and it’s not pretty. Is it true? do you have to accept that you have a passive aggressive husband? Oh my!
And then, as you become more and more aware of being in a passive aggressive [...]