March 15, 2010
Understanding Your Partner’s Passive Aggressive Behavior
Does your partner avoid responsibility and attempts to control you through passivity? Or hides anger and has a fear of being controlled, fear of confrontation, and an inability to deal straight with people?
If the answer is YES then you are dealing with a passive-aggressive partner and you should do something about it. Your partner may have unresolved personal pain from his childhood. There are other reasons why this kind of personality disorder occurs. It refers to behavior that results in unalterable and unchangeable attitude towards the environment.
There are symptoms such as:
- disagreeing with other people’s wishes and beliefs
- forgetting, complaining, disliking other people’s ideas
- giving sarcastic comments
- blaming other people
Your partner probably have problems with adjusting and creating relationships with other people. But you, as a partner, can help. It takes a lot of effort and understanding. Don’t expect too much of anything fundamental from him. You have to understand that being passive aggressive, is having an unhealthy personality.
You know what you want, having a companion to share wonderful moments in your life. But at some point, you start noticing that your companion is always uneasy, upset, and insecure with just about anything. You have to be aware of the feelings, thoughts, and behaviors provoked by his procrastinating behavior.
What would you do? Will you take the risk of entering the most difficult relationship? The two of you must examine the cause and take responsibility for each one’s behavior. It is important for you to make your partner realize that there is a problem.
A passive aggressive person is self motivated. So it is all up to your partner if he wants to change himself. Your partner must focus on every day problems and solutions. He must understand the problems even though there will be a denial at first. You must also help your partner control his passive aggressive actions.
If you are spending too much time in a relationship that lacks intimacy, closeness nor cooperation, take a good look at your need to live with conflict. If you have done everything, consider leaving. Or simply accept things as they are, then try to live a happy life anyway.
To your happiness,
Neil Warner
Creative Conflict Resolutions
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