Do you know what "passive agressive" means? Please explain?

Answer 1

example: you are mad at your husband. you know he needs lunch meat for his sandwich for work tomorrow. you purposely forget it at the store and do not tell him until the next morning when he asks where it is.

Answer 2

Passive-aggressive behaviour refers to passive, sometimes obstructionist resistance to authoritative instructions in interpersonal or occupational situations. It can manifest itself as resentment, stubbornness, procrastination, sullenness, or repeated failure to accomplish requested tasks for which one is assumed, often explicitly, to be responsible. It is a defensive posture and, more often than not, only partly conscious. For example, people who are passive-aggressive might take so long to get ready for a party they do not wish to attend, that the party is nearly over by the time they arrive.

Passive Agressive is also a song by Placebo.

Answer 3

Passive-aggressive behavior refers to passive, sometimes obstructionist resistance to authoritative instructions in interpersonal or occupational situations. It can manifest itself as resentment, stubbornness, procrastination, sullenness, or repeated failure to accomplish requested tasks for which one is assumed, often explicitly, to be responsible. It is a defensive posture and, more often than not, only partly conscious. For example, people who are passive-aggressive might take so long to get ready for a party they do not wish to attend, that the party is nearly over by the time they arrive.

Answer 4

Of, relating to, or having a personality disorder characterized by habitual passive resistance to demands for adequate performance in occupational or social situations, as by procrastination, stubbornness, sullenness, and inefficiency.
For example, people who are passive-aggressive might take so long to get ready for a party they do not wish to attend, that the party is nearly over by the time they arrive.

Answer 5

Someone who is passive agressive has one goal "To resist and frustrate others" They could do something on purpose just to upset someone. Most passive agressive people have negative behaviors constantly, and enjoy being negative.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

"Passive-aggressive behaviour refers to passive, sometimes obstructionist resistance to authoritative instructions in interpersonal or occupational situations. It can manifest itself as resentment, stubbornness, procrastination, sullenness, or repeated failure to accomplish requested tasks for which one is assumed, often explicitly, to be responsible. It is a defensive posture and, more often than not, only partly conscious. For example, people who are passive-aggressive might take so long to get ready for a party they do not wish to attend, that the party is nearly over by the time they arrive."

Answer 8

lol dont you love the copy and paste button the first four answers are the same word for word so made me laugh

FEAR OF DEPENDENCY - Unsure of his autonomy & afraid of being alone, he fights his dependency needs - usually by trying to control you.


*FEAR OF INTIMACY - Guarded & often mistrusful, he is reluctant to show his emotional fragility. He's often out of touch with his feelings, reflexively denying feelings he thinks will "trap" or reveal him, like love. He picks fights to create distance.


*FEAR OF COMPETITION - Feeling inadequate, he is unable to compete with other men in work and love. He may operate either as a self-sabotaging wimp with a pattern of failure, or he'll be the tyrant, setting himself up as unassailable and perfect, needing to eliminate any threat to his power.


*OBSTRUCTIONISM - Just tell a p/a man what you want, no matter how small, and he may promise to get it for you. But he won't say when, and he"ll do it deliberately slowly just to frustrate you. Maybe he won't comply at all. He blocks any real progress he sees to your getting your way.


*FOSTERING CHAOS - The p/a man prefers to leave the puzzle incomplete, the job undone.


*FEELING VICTIMIZED - The p/a man protests that others unfairly accuse him rather than owning up to his own misdeeds. To remain above reporach, he sets himself up as the apparently hapless, innocent victim of your excessive demands and tirades.


*MAKING EXCUSES & LYING - The p/a man reaches as far as he can to fabricate excuses for not fulfilling promises. As a way of withholding information, affirmation or love - to have power over you - the p/a man may choose to make up a story rather than give you a straight answer.


*PROCRASTINATION - The p/a man has an odd sense of time - he believes that deadlines don't exist for him.


*CHRONIC LATENESS & FORGETFULNESS - One of the most infuriating & inconsiderate of all p/a traits is his inability to arrive on time. By keeping you waiting, he sets the ground rules of the relationship. And his selective forgetting - used only when he wants to avoid an obligation.


*AMBIGUITY - He is master of mixed messages and sitting on fences. When he tells you something, you may still walk away wondering if he actually said yes or no.


*SULKING - Feeling put upon when he is unable to live up to his promises or obligations, the p/a man retreats from pressures around him and sulks, pouts and withdraws.


A passive-aggressive man won't have every single one of these traits, but he'll have many of them. He may have other traits as well, which are not passive-aggressive

I have one passive agressive trait im always late for everything, people say id be late for my own funeral

Answer 9

being forceful to the point of bullying, but hiding it carefully by acting in a calm and almost "I am innocent" way.

An example of this would be in a school playground, one group of frined leaves a child out of the game and ignores him/her.
When the child asks to join in they are allowed, but then ignored again. Also add to this evil-eyed stares and whispering behind the childs back and you have an example of passive agressive.

A milder version could be where a wife says to her husbad (in wanting him to return home from work early) if you arent home by 6pm then I'll be out with my friends. Knowing fully well its too late for hin to fix his meal and he had been looking forward to the evening with her.

hope that helps?

Answer 10

well it is basically talking to someone and showing hostility, but not quite like yelling at them or confronting them about a subject, maybe talking to another person in front of the person it is about perhaps?
Example: billy broke suzans tv right before billy, suzan, and another friend bob were about to watch a movie. Suzan says "Well we Could be watching this movie bob, if SOMEONE hadn't broken my tv."

Answer 11

It's an excellent question that i didn't know the answer to, but now I do I realize OMG!!!...I'm a walking PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE example! I didn't know! uh-oh!