How to react to the silent treatment?
Are you getting the cold shoulder from your partner, or the silent treatment, but you don’t know or understand why? Is he suddenly keeping your conversations at a minimum, giving you a little word here and there only to isolate himself? When this comes from your partner, from whom you expect a loving connection, this […]
How to Manage Passive Resistance?
There is a nice letter asking to comment on “passive resistance activities” as in, “how can I manage one of my husband’s favorite tricks, such as over-promising and never delivering, keeping his passivity and making me believe that he “forgot”? Perhaps there is a way…Given that passive-aggressive people generally operate most effectively when they are […]
Tired of Living with a Passive Aggressive Husband?
You can spend years thinking only that your husband is “difficult” and finding support and relief in your family and friends when you need real support. Then, one day, someone asks you: “Did you notice that he always gives you this passive aggressive responses that leave you in the lurch? how do you cope with […]