Is it love? Is it abuse? Do you know the difference? Should you know the difference? Yes, you should know the difference between love and abuse, but that's what I talk about over at love and abuse.com.

My other podcast that deals with the challenges of a difficult relationship, whether it's a romantic relationship or a friend or a family member, coworker, whoever's being difficult in your life, listen to the love and abuse podcast over at love and abuse.com.

You'll gain the tools and the wisdom that you need to help you through the challenges.

Life presents the toughest challenges. Every day you are faced with decisions that test your ability to express who you really want to be in this world.

We're told to keep saying affirmations and keep thinking positively, but what do you do when that stuff doesn't work?

Welcome to the overwhelmed brain, where you'll learn to make decisions that are right for you so that you can create the life you want now.

Hello and welcome to the show. My name is Paul Coliani and I want to help you learn the skill set you need to deal with life's challenges in the most emotionally intelligent way.

This show consists of my personal opinions and is meant for informational purposes only, always seek a professional for your mental health and well-being.

I am so glad that you took some time to connect with me today. I'm glad to be here connecting with you.

I hope this bench doesn't squeak while I'm recording. I'm at somebody's condo right now or renting one in New Hampshire.

That's just neither here nor there. I just don't have access to my studios, so sometimes you might hear a different sound every now and then.

It doesn't really matter though, because I'm going to record the show no matter what it is our last week on vacation and the show must go on.

No matter what, the show must go on. I want to get right into the first question today. This is an email driven show if you don't already know.

This person wrote, I would like to know more about passive aggressive behavior, what it is, and how does it manifest?

I was told by a work supervisor that my client felt I was passive aggressive and my husband told me the same thing just the other day.

I need to understand this more and realize when I'm behaving like that. Thank you for trying to help me.

All right, thank you for sharing that. This is something I know a lot about because I was passive aggressive most of my life.

In fact, I'm not going to, I actually hate this term, but I'm not going to beat a dead horse because I've talked about this in other episodes.

If you go to the overwhelmbrain.com, you can click on list entire episode library and just look up the word aggressive or passive in that search field that comes up and you'll find many episodes where I talked about that.

However, every time I talk about something, I like to take a little different angle on it because I don't want to be repetitive and I sometimes will hit the target for you if I'm lucky that you're looking for.

Even if you have heard my episodes on passive aggressive behavior before, maybe this will give you a different angle that will help.

So, this person wrote, I want to know more about it and what it is and how it does it manifest.

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