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 […]
Using appreciation to confront a passive aggressive husband?
It’s not easy to have a confrontation with your husband…first because not being ready to accept responsibility makes him more prone to denial and angry responses, and second because you don’t feel so confident in your own skills. What is the task? You ask me? I’d say to open a conversation about what is hurting […]
How to Resist Passive Aggressive Behavior from Sabotaging your Love
A passive aggressive partner will often employ sabotage as a means of getting what they want in a relationship. For example, a passive aggressive partner may do a bad job when asked to clean the house, so that the other person will “learn” that if they need something done, they should do it themselves. Another […]