How Well Are Your Emotional Needs Met?
Here is a Valentine’s Day question: How Well Are your Emotional Needs Met? You have a much better chance of having a long and happy relationship if your emotional needs are met. This is the basic and always forgotten marital contract: each one will provide what is needed to make the other person happy…. One […]
A Xmas Truce in a Passive Aggressive Marriage? Use appreciation!
This is a Christmas proposition….and you are very welcome here! DO you remember the old stories in medieval times, when warring armies would stop the ongoing war and have a peace interval to honor Christmas? The truce story is part of all narratives of combat: the moment when soldiers did stop attacking each other and […]
Are Passive Aggressive Holidays Making You Miserable?
If you are living in a passive aggressive marriage, do you feel like you just can’t stand another holiday with this person but can’t imagine spending a holiday alone? The holidays often bring on a confusing increase in passive aggressive behaviors, as well as a heightened sensitivity to the pain these behaviors inflict, making you question […]