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Choose yourself, not your abuser

For all kinds of different reasons, we may end up in the wrong relationship with someone. When things go bad, we try to hold on to those relationships because it’s important to us to try and show our commitment by … Read more …

Be a better man

Discovering you have passive aggressive behaviours and responses to the point that it’s become a personality disorder (PAPD, or Passive Aggressive Personality Disorder) can be something of a shock. When I discovered this about myself it left me depressed for … Read more …

Train Wreck (guest post)

About 7 months ago, one of my wonderful readers took the opportunity to submit a great guest post about her experiences with a passive aggressive partner. You can read it here: Starting Over. Here’s the second part to that post, telling … Read more …

Starting Over (guest post)

I’ve been a passive aggressive man in my past relationships, so my writing has been about my experiences and my growth from my perpective. But there’s also the perspective of someone who has had to live with a passive aggressive … Read more …

Passive aggression and masculinity

Over the recent years I’ve discovered that I’ve become something of an ‘expert’ on passive aggression. After having experienced it for most of my life, realised it, understood it, and overcome it, I have a unique perspective on what it … Read more …

Be responsible for your passive aggression

Men with debilitating passive aggression in their relationships usually find it’s because of their inability to accept responsibility. This makes healing that much more difficult. You can’t heal it if you think you’re not responsible for it. The best thing … Read more …

Growing out of passive aggression

One of the most popular posts of my old blog is about how I was trying to grow out of passive aggression, and surprisingly succeeding! It’s still getting people comment on it today. The post was written only two years after I … Read more …

Passive Aggression and Relationships

I grew up with Passive Aggressive Personality Disorder (PAPD) into my adult years, and had it affect my life and quite a few of my relationships over the years. I just never knew, and thought it was always other people with … Read more …

Growing out of passive aggression

When I started learning about passive aggression, one of the things that stood out for me was that wherever I looked, all the ‘experts’ were telling me that passive aggression cannot be cured, and that all they can do is … Read more …

Avoiding passive aggression

As part of my growth and healing, I’ve found this guide to help me avoid passive aggression. From looking at it and understanding what I need to work on, you can probably understand where my ‘flaws’ are. To avoid being … Read more …

Surprise of a lifetime

You could probably say that the ‘surprise of a lifetime’ would be something that would be the biggest thing to surprise you in your entire life. I think that’s what’s happened to me. I discovered during the week that I … Read more …