![]() ![]() ![]() So we’ve compiled seven of the most commonly reported ways passive-aggressive character traits can show up in your life: The behavior is practically defined by its plausible deniability. Passive-aggressiveness comes in varying degrees, which can make it tricky to know if you work, live or socialize with a passive-aggressor - or if you’re one yourself. Clinicians differ on whether it qualifies as a full-blown personality disorder like, say, narcissism or paranoia, but they agree on the symptoms: deliberate inefficiency, an avoidance of responsibility, a refusal to state needs or concerns directly. Sometimes there’s an innocent explanation, but often there’s not - and the passive-aggressors themselves might not even know which is which.Įither way, passive-aggression is more than just the nettlesome habit of a few maddeningly indirect people. It’s the spouse who’s usually punctual but takes forever to get out of the house when it’s your turn to choose the movie. You see it in the competitive colleague who would never confront you directly but accidentally leaves your name off an email about an important meeting. It’s aggression as steam - hard to frame, impossible grasp. Passive-aggression is there but it’s not, you see it and you don’t. It’s hard to misunderstand the meaning of a missile launch or a punch in the nose.īut passive-aggression - regular aggression’s sneaky little cousin? That’s a whole other thing. But if aggression has one virtue, it’s that it’s unambiguous. Every war, bar brawl or playground smackdown ever fought has resulted from our habit of lashing out first and talking it through only later. Human aggression doesn’t have much going for it. ![]()
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