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Passive Aggression Is a Trauma Response (But So Is Over-Explaining… and I’m Tired of Both)
Let’s just call it what it is: emotional contortionism. The art of bending ourselves into pretzel-shaped versions of “acceptable” just to keep the peace. Just to avoid the sigh. The side-eye. The “you’re too much” or the “why are you so sensitive?” Yeah. I’m tired of it, too. We don’t talk enough about how passive aggression and over-explaining are actually just two sides of the same trauma coin… polished over time in the hands of people who learned early on that their tone, not their truth, was the problem.…


