7 Signs That You Might Be Passive Aggressive
Many people would prefer to steer clear of a passive-aggressive person. But what if you are the one displaying passive-aggressive behavior traits? You may simply be someone unconsciously being passive-aggressive towards certain people or you could have a passive-aggressive personality disorder. But what exactly is the passive-aggressive definition? How to recognize that you might be a passive-aggressive person? Passive-aggressive behavior includes subtlety, sullenness or indirect actions directed against a person. Some passive-aggressive examples can be a friend always distracted by her phone when talking to you or your spouse not expressing overt anger at you but refusing to look at you or respond to you in the usual loving way. It could include subtle insults such as ‘I wish I could buy new outfits every month like you do but I need to save my money to take care of the necessities’. Here are seven signs that can indicate passive-aggressive behavior. Intentionally ignoring a person Do you deliberately ignore greeting a colleague or hearing your partner? It consists of not acknowledging someone in such a subtle way that the other person may not be sure if your actions were intentional or not. A passive-aggressive husband or wife could be ignoring the other when eating breakfast together in a very deliberate way by engaging in actions such as reading something on the phone.