Comments on: Manipulation

By: anonym

anonym — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 11:29:30 +0000

Sometimes too passive aggressive people use words like additionally as if the original post was not complete or needed to be supplemented.

By: anonym

anonym — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 11:25:47 +0000

…as seen from your post Bob. Or, passive aggressiveness can also include telling someone they are confused.

BTW: Thanks for the book recommendation.

By: anonym

anonym — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 11:22:14 +0000

Perhaps there are more than two types of aggressiveness.

By: Lalitha

Lalitha — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:41:14 +0000

Wonderful article! I know people who will ask “Do you want to eat something?” when others are not around, and I always answer “No”, and then later on, on another occasion, when there are others present, they will say “You didn’t have anything last time, you must have some tea today”, with an injured expression, when both I and they know fully well that they had no intention of serving you anything last time. In fact, the table would have been laid for lunch (or dinner) and they already had two hours’ notice of my plans to visit them, at which time no invitations to lunch (or dinner)were issued, so I made other plans for lunch. I have to read this book, so I will have a better way of dealing with this. At present, all I do is distance myself and just make the courtesy calls and make the appropriate noises when I visit.

By: Bob

Bob — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 15:16:27 +0000

Additionally, there are many tactics covert aggressives use in the case of a direct attack. They turn things against you, making you and feel like you are the aggressor. Gaslighting is also another known weapon in their armory, where they switch things around when you are not looking, and you almost feel like you are going crazy. They are generally good at playing mind games.