I Live With a Passive Aggressive Male

Agreement, Resistance and Hidden Hostility as Major Characteristics

The man with passive aggressive behavior needs someone to be the object of his hidden hostility. He needs an adversary whose expectations and demands he can resist as...

Dealing with someone who is passive aggresive can be very tiring. When it finally dawns on you, you realise that you do not even know the person whom you are dealing with. Malice veiled in faux companionship. What veiled malice you ask...

I act in a passive aggressive way when I:

* hide my hostility by seeming to be nice to someone I dislike, and am unable to be honest with the person.
* say I agree with something but don't follow through because I really don't agree...

I was married for 3 years to a PA man.  It was a nightmare.  When we were in public, he was affectionate and loving, in private he would completely ignore me and refused to touch me sexually.  We were in counseling - and...

I have been involved with a passive agressive man for 6 years.  The first couple of years, I could not figure out what was going on with him.  Sometimes he was loving, kind and funny.  Then he would turn around and become...

The man with this type of pattern shows little consideration of the time, feelings, standards or needs of others.
He obstructs and block progress to others getting what they want and then ignores or minimalizes their dissatisfactions...

You have a lot of anger toward the passive aggressive man you are involved with. You just can’t figure out exactly what you are angry about. He is sweet, kind and loving. He never argues, does exactly what you wish. There must be...

Passive aggressive behavior does not happen in a vacuum; it requires a partner to bounce things off of. This problems exists between people--one who resists and one who get frustrated. The need for a woman to choose and remain with a...

I  have been with my PA for 2 years May 31st.  When i met him he was dying of pancreatic cancer. He was so kind, loving and appreciative I didn't care if all i had was 2 months with him.

November 2008 we found out the tumor...

* are surprised.
* get disappointed.
* get angry.
* are confused by p/a  behavior.
* confronts  P/A  on their actions.
* realize that THE P/A  lied to them.
* get frustrated by the inconsistency in P/A  behavior.
* begin to do...

Most of us have experienced some confusion and despair dealing with a spouse, other family member or close acquaintance. The behavior we want to discuss with you today is so frustrating because we do not know how to handle it and we...

Symptoms

People with this disorder resent responsibility and show it through their behaviors, rather than by openly expressing their feelings. They often use procrastination, inefficiency, and forgetfulness to avoid doing what they...

It takes a special kind of woman to choose and marry a passive aggressive man. The woman who marries the passive aggressive man was taught in her family of origin to accept a high level of frustration for a minimal level of love and...

Each day I wish I were not with him. He procrastinates or promises to do something and never completes what he said he would do. His temper flares for the smallest issues and I am always the supposed cause of everything that goes wrong...

The Passive-Aggressive Controller

Perhaps you know someone who displays several of the seven signs of passive aggression. This type of person …
1.Repeatedly promises to do things and then “forgets.”
2.Continually finds...

There are many childhood set ups for this way of coping but most often there is a domineering mother and a father who is ineffectual. There are power struggles in the marriage with one parent backing off and withdrawing. The boy feels...