Passive Aggressive Diaries

Understanding passive aggressive behavior in families, schools, and workplaces.

Filling Out School Forms: The Oldest Husband vs. Wife Passive Aggressive Trick in the Book

How Do I Fill Out This Form?

It's season premiere week for the TV networks and what makes for better, more hilariously relatable comedy than passive aggression between spouses? Check out this clip from ABC's The Middle as Frankie guilts Mike into filling out school forms, when all he really wants to do is go to sleep. Instead of getting mad or refusing to help, Mike uses the oldest passive aggressive trick in the book--Intentional Inefficiency--to get out of the chore.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/180216/the-middle-the-school-forms



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Signe Whitson is a licensed social worker and co-author of The Angry Smile: The Psychology of Passive Aggressive Behavior in Families, Schools, and Workplaces, 2nd ed.

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