Healing a Passive Aggressive Marriage?
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 […]
Verbal Abuse as a Way of Spouse Control
In a toxic relationship, the balance of power is manipulated by one side as to keep the control over the other person’s thoughts and behaviors. In order to make their partner feel inadequate or weak, the controlling person will use verbally abusive tactics as shame, belittling, name-calling and sarcasm. In this way they grab the […]
How to respond to anger
Sometimes the best approach to see an issue under a different light is to take a completely different tack. In the blog Happiness in this World, the author who is a Buddhist physician explaining a sudden case of anger in his office. The point offered here useful for marital situations is this: HOW TO DIFFUSE […]