Emily Laurence is a journalist, freelance writer and certified health coach living in Raleigh, North Carolina. She specializes in writing about mental health, healthy aging and overall wellness. For ...

A cutting remark. The silent treatment. A despondent, conflict-avoidant friend or co-worker who refuses to talk about the cause of their unhappiness: Chances are, we’ve all been on the receiving and ...

Have you ever had to deal with a sarcastic co-worker? Or maybe you've asked your colleagues for feedback only to find later that they gossiped or spread rumors behind your back. Seventy percent of ...

Psychiatrist Daniel Hall-Flavin describes passive-aggressive behavior as “a pattern of indirectly expressing negative feelings instead of openly addressing them. There's a disconnect between what a ...

Aaron was winding up a work call as his partner Jim waited at the dinner table. “I’ll just be a minute or two here,” Aaron whispered, cupping his phone. “No probs,” Jim whispered back. Minutes passed ...

Most of us like to think of ourselves as pretty reasonable communicators. We don’t yell. We don’t slam doors. We’d never say anything deliberately cruel. And yet, there are phrases that slip out of ...

Passive-aggressive people often say things that sound harmless at first, but leave you feeling confused or attacked. The phrases passive-aggressive people use without even realizing it can be ...

In an ideal world, we’d all be able to tell our partners exactly what we’re feeling, as soon as we’re feeling it. But real life often falls short of that. Maybe it feels too vulnerable to express a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Passive-aggressive means something is being said in a condescending manner that is intended to make someone feel less than or ...