Being Passive Aggressive Means THIS is Missing In Your Marriage Episode 91
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever found yourself or your partner avoiding direct or clear communication, evading problems, fearing intimacy or competition, making excuses, blaming, playing the victim, feigning compliance with requests, being sarcastic, or hiding anger?
All of these behaviors describe being passive aggressive! You might not have thought of this at first, but there are many couples that are experiencing this right now in their marriage.
This topic even comes from patterns we saw in our couples group, so we put up a poll, and this topic was voted on to be this week's topic.
In this episode you will take away:
- How to recognize the passive aggressive patterns
- The 3 reasons why this happens within a relationship
- 4 things that could be missing so that you do not do not have this pattern start or continue in your own marriage.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, couples, and welcome to the Empowered Couples podcast where here you get non-boring, |
| 0:05.0 | modern relationship advice so that you and your partner can communicate like pros, fight smarter, |
| 0:11.3 | and stay on the same team no matter what challenge comes your way in your relationship or in your |
| 0:17.5 | life. And I am one of your hosts, Aaron Freeman. And I'm Jocelyn Freeman, but we know that you just remember us as the Freeman's. That's right. And today, thanks for joining |
| 0:25.2 | us. We are diving into being passive aggressive means this is missing in your marriage. And Jocelyn, |
| 0:33.1 | where does this come from? Well, it actually comes from, to be honest, in my direct messages with people |
| 0:39.1 | privately, because I love that you all ask us questions, and we do our best to answer as thoroughly |
| 0:44.5 | as we can be a messenger, you know, as much as we can without doing like a whole coaching |
| 0:48.3 | session. And what I noticed, to be honest, was that in many of the questions that I was getting, I was noticing |
| 0:56.6 | when I'd go deeper that there was this theme of being passive aggressive in the relationship |
| 1:02.5 | and that it was unconsciously happening and they thought that they were communicating well. |
| 1:09.5 | And I was noticing it was actually more |
| 1:11.7 | passive aggressive communication which will define in just a minute so it came from the dance |
| 1:15.6 | and look I'm not pointing the finger at all the only way that I can hear that or notice that |
| 1:21.8 | is because I have done it I have experienced it I have transformed it in myself and so we always give those answers not from a place of judgment, but just from awareness. |
| 1:32.3 | That's right. |
| 1:33.3 | And what we're going to be covering is what is being passive aggressive, why does this happen? |
| 1:39.3 | And then what's missing so that you can actually stop being passive aggressive or just see why it's |
| 1:45.8 | there and transform it right so before we jump into it we want to actually say to everyone thank |
| 1:49.9 | you so much for all the reviews the reviews on the podcast literally have other couples see this |
| 1:57.2 | podcast and you're actually having an indirect impact into the lives of other couples |
| 2:02.1 | just by reviewing. |
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