From a wider perspective, this game of passive aggression is endless!
Perhaps because it’s summer, I can see more clearly the marital control game going on? Just driving around when a thought exploded in my brain: are we all playing this universal game? Let me explain the “control game,” when both sides push and pull, but are always in the same place? Most men resist growing […]
Can you have intimacy with respect for your own emotional needs?
Having intimacy with respect means that you can trust the other person to respect your emotional needs! We are all people in development, with our own issues that can sometimes hurt others…not out of malice, but ignorance and lack of skills at containing each other. Relationships are the schools that teach us how to be […]
Is the silent treatment love or marital control ?
If he Keeps Silent for 3 Weeks, Are You Under Marital Control? Marital control is too common, almost automatic… done by finding ways of putting down the other person. Perhaps we should be teaching this lesson to our 5-year-old daughters, so they grow up aware of what awaits them? They should be expecting an […]