Are you passive agressive and what is the diffrence in that and being assertive?
They’re two different things — being assertive simply means saying what you want. If the passive aggressive person doesn’t get what he or she wants, they can act out, without telling you what they are upset about. Sometimes a passive aggressive person sabotages’s a groups intent. For e.g. five people are asked to come to a meeting; one individual doesn’t want to go… instead of saying “I’m not coming” (the assertive way), he or she simply doesn’t show. That causes disruption to the meeting, because everybody is sitting around waiting for this person, they then have to work out how to proceed… had the individual said “I’m not coming” the group could have planned before hand what course the meeting should take without this individual.
