How to Spot a Passive Aggressive Partner

Are you now suffering the silent treatment? Hoping that you can help your husband be more open and vulnerable with you? Asking him to change? You are losing your time! The real tragedy would be that you could spend years trying to understand what is the problem that makes you feel so unhappy and lonely in your marriage. Up to the day when you discover this problem has a name: it is passive-aggressive behavior! But, you discover what is the condition just when you are on the brink of the relationship's breakup. Would you like to know this fact earlier? So you can know what you have to do to rescue your sanity? It is tragic that women spend too many years trying to understand the situation they are in, and when they can say: “I know that my husband is passive-aggressive,” it is too late to recover lost life opportunities and a small sense of self-esteem and peace of mind. Your mind needs to make decisions while it is simultaneously receiving contradictory messages. He’ll describe his behavior as good-intentioned, willing to help and support you, while at the same time he abandons all commitments at the first opportunity. Later he will give you a nice excuse and twist your brain another turn of the screw… You can cut to the chase knowing the many ways in which passive aggression can manifest: learned helplessness, procrastination, stubbornness, resentment, sullenness, or deliberate/repeated failure to accomplish requested tasks for which one is (often explicitly) responsible. We bring in this book the views of the person living with a passive-aggressive person, who is trying to make sense of one of the most contradictory situations you can find: in the heart of a relationship predicated as getting near, very intimately related to another person, the passive-aggressive person unleashes his hidden impulse to sabotage intimacy and take distance from any relationship which could be threatening to bond him with another human being. Is this a tragic exercise in contradiction? Of course, at the same time, he says that he i