People with Secure Attachment Style Enjoy Happier Lives
How does a secure attachment style produce happier lives? It appears that there are proven relationships between kinds of attachment, human needs satisfaction, and well-being or distress. It is possible that individuals with attachment security are more likely to experience the satisfaction of their basic psychological needs of autonomy, competence, and love and connection to […]
Do you Ignore, Suffer, or Confront Passive Aggressive Behavior?
What is Best: Ignore, Suffer, or Confront Passive Aggressive Behavior? Here is really the obnoxious situation that spouses complain about: the moment when you realize that your partner is avoiding going along with you using some passive-aggressive response. It takes some minutes for you to realize that you are not getting any response, not […]
Passive Aggression as a Defensive Skill?
Why using passive aggression as a defensive skill in a personal relationship? I now think passive aggression is selected to be used as a defensive skill to protect against a controlling parent or person from the past. The child, unable to leave, or to confront, takes this third way: to simulate compliance while rebelling internally….and […]