When Passive Aggression Is Really Covert Aggression

Love Over Addiction

Michelle Anderson

Society & Culture, Wifeofanalcoholic, Codependency, Relationships, Recovery, Alanon

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2019

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Here’s the loving truth: because we love a good person suffering from addiction, we just don’t have the luxury of a “normal” relationship.

Addiction is sneaky, and will do whatever it has to do to thrive, including hurting us, the ones that are closest and care the most.

Here’s the thing though: we’re not powerless. We’re not martyrs. We’re not victims of this very hard situation. We’re not. I refuse to believe that for one second.

Today you’ll find power, you’ll find the knowledge and tools that you need to know when you can trust, and when you shouldn’t. And you’ll learn other things to look out for.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the off today's podcast with a question from
0:26.5	Susie a wonderful beautiful woman in our community and I thought her question was so helpful
0:34.3	that I wanted to share it with you guys.
0:37.1	Her question is this, I'm dealing with my high functioning
0:40.2	alcoholic husband, who I believe is probably been for a long time passive
0:46.5	aggressive. I believe this is a personality defect and does not necessarily relate to his addiction.
0:56.0	How does one deal?
0:57.6	Any ways to diffuse it?
0:59.6	I think this is why our house is edgy and would love to find healthy effective methods for me and my 10 year old son to cope.
1:08.0	All right, so how many of you guys listening right now can relate and think that you are with somebody who is passive aggressive?
1:18.5	It's a good question, right? Today I'm going to teach you the difference between passive aggressive behavior and covert aggression and what to look out for in both behaviors.
1:31.0	Now you guys, listen, I just said some pretty heavy words there and I
1:35.8	promise you this this is not going to be dry this is not going to be from some
1:41.2	textbook I'm going to give you lots of examples
1:45.0	and make it really simple.
1:46.6	It's actually going to be quite short today,
1:49.4	because this is one thing I believe in. Knowledge is power and we, you and me are not powerless
2:00.1	over this disease. You guys, if you've been listening to this podcast or you join
2:05.1	one of my programs you know I'm a huge huge fan of thinking that we are not
2:12.2	powerless over this disease. We don't need to sit around
2:15.2	and wait for them to get sober to start to feel better. We can do many, many, many, practical, easy, very simple things
2:26.2	to take our power back.
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