Passive Aggressive Attachment
What is a passive aggressive attachment? Passive aggressive behavior from a husband is not a reaction to the present wife or the present relationship; rather, it is a learned model of interpersonal attachment, wired in a person’s brain early in life. It is a pattern learned from the interaction with the mother or caretaker, who […]
Withholding Sex: How Do You Keep Yourself Alive?
In a previous post about sexless marriage, we discussed the issue of passive aggressive husbands withholding sex in the marriage. It is a form of punishment that tries to keep you under his control. However, we can also understand it as his misinformed way of handling fears about rejection, worthlessness, and emasculation. The next […]
How to Survive in a Sexless Passive Aggressive Marriage
The issue of a sexless passive aggressive marriage is difficult to understand, looks like a contradiction in terms. Why marry if you don’t want sex? It goes deeper… Sex as a means of control is something many women struggle with in a passive aggressive marriage, although it is a sensitive and private matter that most […]