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Passive Aggressive Husband

Why secrecy is part of passive aggression?

This post explores why secrecy is such a fundamental part of passive-aggressive behavior in marriage, helping wives and partners understand that this pattern originates from their husband’s childhood trauma—not from anything they caused. Dr. Nora Femenia and the Passive Aggressive Husband team explain how early experiences of emotional abuse or humiliation created a survival mechanism […]

Stress and conflict in a passive aggressive marriage

Recent research has shown that our bodies are intertwined with all our emotional states. Our hearts, lungs, stomach and all our internal organs respond to the stress level we experience. Our bodies are faster than the mind to recognize emotional threats in a way that we are not so much aware of, and this can […]

How to Deal With a Passive Aggressive Husband

There is a slow progression in the process of realizing the main cause of some spousal behaviors. First you feel that something is odd, because you have some feelings of hurt that don’t correspond with the objective situation…you are happily married, and then some response from your spouse makes the whole perception shake, and you […]