If you bring everything up from the beginning and just address it when it first shows itself as a possible issue, then you eliminate most problems before they even become problems.

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Picking up where we left off, which is part four of our four-part mini-series,

How to Eliminate Your Passive Aggression.

We'll pick up right where we left.

We finished that point number nine.

Here we are at point number 10.

Telling you what someone else

said about you instead of owning it, whether that means forcing the other person to own it or

instead of using another person as a proxy for your own opinion, just owning it yourself.

This is another common passive aggressive tactic that people use as a way of letting

their energy out about you without positioning themselves for any accountability for their

own personal opinions. Now, sometimes people use this as a lie by again, using an imaginary

person as a proxy. This is when someone comes to you and says, well, somebody said and then

fill in blank with whatever the thing is, and that somebody doesn't actually exist. Nobody said that. It was actually the person who was talking to you. They said it or they think it. They don't want to own it and had to be held accountable for what they think or what they're saying. So they make it seem as if someone else said it, and they are simply the reporter who is telling

you what someone else said. So this person, again, they're using an imaginary third party as a proxy

to get their point across. This is a form of passive aggression if you didn't know. Even if someone

else really did say the thing that you happen to be reporting, you shouldn't be reporting someone else's

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