How to react to the silent treatment?
Are you getting the cold shoulder from your partner, or the silent treatment, but you don’t know or understand why? Is he suddenly keeping your conversations at a minimum, giving you a little word here and there only to isolate himself? When this comes from your partner, from whom you expect a loving connection, this […]
Aggressive Words Women Use
Women in pvvassive aggressive relationships, or PA women themselves, often develop a vocabulary specific to their situation. This vocabulary, innocent as it appears, can cause numerous communication problems between the PA and the partner trying to handle them. Fine – An “I give up” way to quickly end an argument. Cliche and used often in […]
Balancing Passive Aggression Strategy 2
Sometimes, the easiest strategy to balance passive aggression is to stop pushing, claiming or requesting… This is called the Russian strategy, like when the locals were withdrawing into the woods leaving the field empty to Napoleon’s soldiers… No resistance, no guerrilla activity, nothing. No support, show of interest or fear whatsoever. How do you do […]