If these first efforts fail to stop the passive aggressive behavior, you can try to impose consequences when they don't meet their goals.
It's tempting when you are in a bad mood or when you don't want to be hurt to be passive aggressive, to not say what you mean, to make veiled hints in order to test the other person and so on.
And women have that sixth sense, so even if she doesn't figure out to what you are up, she will smell the dog on you and punish you in passive aggressive ways that only a woman can.
The negative side of this principle is the martyr attitude, a peculiar kind of passive aggressiveness.
Because his perception is that there is no room for discussion or negotiation, he reluctantly agrees to the task but then ACTS out in passive aggressive ways.
If you have been passive aggressive with someone lately or trying to "get someone's goat" in the past few weeks, things will backfire badly on you lately.
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