COPING WITH PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR

Have some discussions with your significant other left you feeling emotionally drained, dejected, and distressed? Confused and angry? Some of his behaviors are not only confusing and hard to accept, but they will damage your confidence and self-esteem along the way. Repetitive passive aggressive behavior can take its toll on you, slowly altering your personality, until you barely recognize yourself, and get transformed into a wreck of a person. You feel depressed, you might cry or yell more often than before, and you feel totally out of control, because you can't think clearly what is best for you!

How do you identify passive aggressive behavior?

• Unexpected, unprovoked anger attacks, not related to the issue being discussed.

• Giving you the cold shoulder without an obvious reason

• Rejecting to talk about your feelings

• Ignoring or blocking you from your relationships with family and friends

• Being sensitive and caring one minute; acting hostile and resentful the next

Even when we all do some passive aggressive behavior here and there, especially when we are resisting some other person ordering us around, but we don't want to challenge him, everyone knows what this behavior looks like.

What you need to look for is not the occasional response that blocks cooperation while saying that it is forthcoming, but look for the passive-aggressive behavior which is ingrained and the habitual way of dealing with the world, you included.

It can come across as a maddening mixture of evasiveness and contrition, agreeableness and resistance, connection and aloofness and in severe cases is often masked by more obvious mental illness, like depression.

The classic description of passive aggressive behavior includes a "stubborn malcontent, someone who passively resists fulfilling routine tasks, complains of being misunderstood and underappreciated, unreasonably scorns authority and voices exaggerated complaints of personal misfortune."

Sometimes you can even perceive him as doing a whole blockage of all your plans to prosper, progress and develop new experiences for both, so scared this person is of change and of you being the change agent. If you push a lot, then you will be served with anger attacks, coming like "out of nowhere," but destined to protect his personality from any adult demand coming his way.

Do you need to know more? If you think passive aggressive behavior is the cause of your unhappy situation there are steps you can take to resolve it.

Perhaps you need to get a copy of "Recovering from Passive Aggression," an ebook that will give you strategies to respond to Passive Aggressive tactics! If you are ready to break free of the chains of passive aggressive emotional bondage, if you are tired of feeling humiliated and alone, if you are ready to take control of your emotional well-being once and for all, then this e-book is for you.