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Article: Tell Me About It: 'Passive-aggressive' is really just bad communication; Share your feelings with those around you
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- August 10, 2005
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Carolyn:
Help! Over the years I've come to realize that I am textbook
passive-aggressive. I grumble under my breath when my boyfriend
doesn't do the dishes on his dish night, I fantasize of telling my
boss that his sweaty underwear drying on his office bookshelf is NOT
considered interior decorating, and I quietly roll my eyes during the
two-hour calls from my best friend about her umpteenth breakup with
her BF this month.
Grrr, I'm becoming bitter and that sucks. Not to mention that I
know I'm not being fair to all these people by not letting them into
my head (boss aside, eck!).
But how do I do that? And how do I change my thinking? Every time
I think of what I want to say, it comes out ...