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[quote=Anonymous]Having grown up with a for-real master of passive aggression in my paternal grandmother, I agree.  Someone doing something you don't like is not passive aggression.  Passive aggression is not telling someone that you don't want to see the play, and instead "forgetting" to buy the tickets.  It's "accidentally" breaking a dish every time you have to do the dishes instead of saying that you don't want to do the dishes.

Here's a great example of passive aggression.  My grandmother would be invited over for dinner at our house.   Despite the fact that my mom always gave us a five- or ten-minute warning to go wash our hands, as soon as she said, "Time for dinner!" my grandmother would go to the bathroom.  And take forever.  Every single time.  Meaning, that we all had to wait for her so we could say grace and start to eat.  This was intentionally done to exert control, but who could complain about an elderly woman going to the bathroom?  The first time my mom had us say grace and start eating while grandma was in the bathroom, my grandmother nearly died of shock.  The look on her face was unbelievably priceless.  And she never pulled that trick again. [/quote]

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