I just found this group and hope that it can provide some answers and help for me. So far I have seen mostly people complaining about how their PA partner...
Slamdragon, I suffer from passive-aggressive myself, but just recently realized that's what it was. I can remember when I first learned that a hostile boss at...
Lisa I'm so glad you're here. Jen Lisa Sears <scorpio19th@...> wrote: Slamdragon, I suffer from passive-aggressive myself, but just recently realized...
Well, I started going to therapy and my therapist strongly recommended that we go to marriage counseling but hb refuses to go. His answer "have more sex and...
Hmm-- I'm going to give you my opinion, though I can certainly see why you feel like you're going nuts. I think you need to take this one thing at a time. I...
That's great that you're going to therapy even if hb won't. If nothing else, it will help you get healthier emotionally, and that's never a bad thing! It can't...
I am biased. I'm a writer and an aspiring screenwriter. I love Emma Thompson. But even if these weren't true, I would urge all of you to go see "Stranger...
Well, I had a terrible argument with my husband last Friday, it was his birthday for crying out loud, and his daughter was coming 200 miles into town for the ...
gosh, what a rotten day, for all of you. my hb does the clean up at the last minute thing, too. my first hb did, too, and my dad did, according to my mother....
Jennifer, thanks for the response, and the insight. But please tell me something, and this isn't rhetorical or passive-aggressive, it's truly sincere. How DO...
I'm going to use your example to tell you what I would have done differently. First, since it was his bd, if he wanted to clean things at the last minute and...
Hi Lisa I have not posted much lately as I've been busy getting things organized to get out of my 27 yr marriage with a PA. What I do now is make him talk...
Lisa, I'm sorry it has taken so long to get back to this group. I also fall into the catagory of Avoidant Personality disorder and have been avoiding this...
Does anyone know if it is common when there little world is spiraling out of control do they become more rigid and more angry? Well the angry part I probably...
PA's want control,so inflexible is part of it. the less control they feel, the more they buck against everything. i've often thought, when my hb was at his...
Hello, I am new to this group. I am trying to deal with extreme passive aggressive behavior from my boyfriend's daughter and son-in-law. Bob and I have been...
... A simple solution is You and Bob decide to take a Christmas vacation, just the two of you. Send their gifts to them via UPS,along with a card wishing them...
I had the strangest thing happen to me today. I live in Texas, and it's never very cold here. But the last few days it's been a little colder, and very ...
I'm giving support to my son lately, who's trying to pull his life together. He has been really up for a while and he crashed today. I think we forget that...
Jen, thanks for the words of comfort and wisdom. Where do you live, that Tex-Mex can brighten your spirit? And with or without a margarita? In my case, I...
I grew up in So Cal (Newport Beach) so we ate a lot of Tex-Mex food. I'm Utah now and miss Ca's good food, but we have a pretty good restaurant in our town. No...
Jen, I do appreciate your sharing your experience about hating the men who r*ped you, and wishing them all kinds of damage. You said you'd felt that way for...
I was in therapy and also working a lot on my own: journaling, praying, exercising, self-talk, support people. I got there, I guess, because I couldn't live...
Thanks again for sharing with me, Jen. I sure envy your peace and acceptance. I know it's becoming harder and harder for me to deal with the anger, and I...
Hang in there Lisa, I am getting out of my 27 yr marriage as we speak. Yeah I love what you say about them blaming you for the sun setting in the evening....
Your brain is the seat of your intelligence and source of your emotions ... and so it controls your entire life. Everyone knows that any improvement you can...
Is it bad to be passive aggressive to the point where you just want life to be in balance and not rock the boat and to be a peacemaker without hurting anyone?...
The term passive aggressive is misleading, because it sounds like sometimes you're passive, sometimes you're aggressive. In actuality it means that you're...
Hi everyone in the group, I joined about 10 days ago, but didn't see anyone posting, so I just kind of lurked for a while. My name is Debra and I live in...
