The direct way to communicate with a passive-aggressive person

The Overwhelmed Brain

Paul Colaianni: Emotional Abuse and Relationship Expert

Education, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.5 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Are you really misunderstanding everything they say, or are they just trying to get away with being mean under the radar? I address that and also talk about when someone doesn't like a gift you've given them. If that sounds good, tune in!

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0:00.0	These are my personal opinions. Always seek a professional when you're making choices about your mental health and well-being.
0:11.7	Welcome to the show. My name is Paul Koliani and I am glad that you're here. We are on episode number 656.
0:20.5	For those of you keeping track, got your spreadsheet out.
0:26.8	Anyway, again, I'm glad that you're here. I'm going to get right into today's topic,
0:30.9	or actually I have a couple topics today. One of them is just, I don't know, this may be a short
0:37.1	segment here, but I watched somebody
0:41.4	on YouTube talk about, in fact, it was Adam Savage.
0:44.5	If you know Adam Savage from Mythbusters, he has a YouTube channel, and he was reading a message
0:49.4	that was from somebody that created something for themselves.
0:55.2	They created, I don't know what it was.
0:57.3	They made something.
0:58.4	And Adam's a maker.
0:59.4	He makes props for movies and things like that.
1:02.8	And so people write to him.
1:04.9	And there are other makers out there.
1:06.7	They call him makers.
1:08.0	And I'm fascinated by it because it's kind of in the engineering, creative, artistic
1:14.1	space that I like to follow and sometimes be a part of.
1:18.4	I used to do similar things.
1:20.3	I used to fix things.
1:22.5	And so this guy wrote and he said, I made this device for myself and whatever it was, and I
1:29.3	really enjoyed it and I decided to make one for a friend of mine, or it might have been
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