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 […]
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 […]
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 […]