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Birthday expectations | cathysnewlife
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Moving on from passive aggressive relationship. It was my birthday yesterday. I approached it with habitual anxiety based on many, many birthdays with my pah and in my family of origin that had caused me distress, but now that I’m alone, it was lovely to spend it with my adult daughters, partners and extended family. No tension or issues. The saddest part is that I have low expectations, so this wasn’t my fault at all. It was in his head. He told her that he had a prior fishing engagement. He wasn...
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A passive aggressive on Christmas Day. | cathysnewlife
https://cathysnewlife.wordpress.com/2014/12/21/a-passive-aggressive-on-christmas-day
Moving on from passive aggressive relationship. A passive aggressive on Christmas Day. About everything- gifts, food, wrapping-paper mess- just everything despite not having expended any effort himself. To buy me a present was presented as an enormous burden although I purchased and wrapped all of the other gifts and organised all of the food and decorations. Helping out when we had visitors and would vanish for an hour or two on some errand at the busiest time of the meal preparation. At any opportunity...
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what next? | cathysnewlife
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Moving on from passive aggressive relationship. Hello everyone. I haven’t blogged for months myself because I haven’t needed to ( although I’ve got a lot out of reading other people’s blogs). It was all about trying to make sense out of spending nearly four decades living in the insane world of a passive-aggressive (covert aggressive) marriage and blaming myself for not sorting it out earlier. Helpfully we both challenge each other’s sense of powerlessness and we helped each other to view our indiv...
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the therapist and the airing cupboard | cathysnewlife
https://cathysnewlife.wordpress.com/2014/08/05/the-therapist-and-the-airing-cupboard
Moving on from passive aggressive relationship. The therapist and the airing cupboard. I commented to my counsellor that it is really nice to be able to take charge of my own home, possessions and finances and that it helps me to feel calmer. ‘Oh’ she said, ‘so he was really untidy? 8217; Surprised, I replied ‘no, he was obsessively neat with his own possessions! Well he never, ever, put anything away correctly after that even though a two-year-old could see the system. Towels, sheets, pillowcases al...
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what next? | cathysnewlife
https://cathysnewlife.wordpress.com/2015/05/11/what-next
Moving on from passive aggressive relationship. Hello everyone. I haven’t blogged for months myself because I haven’t needed to ( although I’ve got a lot out of reading other people’s blogs). It was all about trying to make sense out of spending nearly four decades living in the insane world of a passive-aggressive (covert aggressive) marriage and blaming myself for not sorting it out earlier. Helpfully we both challenge each other’s sense of powerlessness and we helped each other to view our indiv...
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A passive aggressive on Christmas Day. | cathysnewlife
https://cathysnewlife.wordpress.com/2014/12/21/a-passive-aggressive-on-christmas-day/comment-page-1
Moving on from passive aggressive relationship. A passive aggressive on Christmas Day. About everything- gifts, food, wrapping-paper mess- just everything despite not having expended any effort himself. To buy me a present was presented as an enormous burden although I purchased and wrapped all of the other gifts and organised all of the food and decorations. Helping out when we had visitors and would vanish for an hour or two on some errand at the busiest time of the meal preparation. At any opportunity...
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Easter Eggs | cathysnewlife
https://cathysnewlife.wordpress.com/2014/08/08/easter-eggs
Moving on from passive aggressive relationship. This is one of the Straws. One day I came back from work, a couple of weeks before Easter, and noticed a very pretty card and lovely, organic chocolate Easter egg on the kitchen counter. This was very unusual as he never followed little traditional rituals like this, never planned ahead, and if he were to think of it, would have just thrown a cheap, probably inappropriate (The Hulk! August 8, 2014. Laquo; Previous Post. Next Post ». Leave a Reply x. On A pa...
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May | 2015 | cathysnewlife
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December | 2014 | cathysnewlife
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Whoopee he lied! | cathysnewlife
https://cathysnewlife.wordpress.com/2014/08/17/whoopee-he-lied
Moving on from passive aggressive relationship. It made me look paranoid for checking up on him. He didn’t make openly snide comments either. I guess I’m saying that he is a very, very good liar. Or that I am very, very gullible to lying. Both are probably true. So hence the title of this blog. I caught him out in a deliberate lie! 8211; was there a sudden crisis? He had forgotten that he had spoken to me, and that I knew full well that he had been home for hours! I suddenly realised that his work was.