What is the most effective way to communicate with a passive-aggressive personality?”
It’s good that you’re getting away. The situation doesn’t sound healthy or fun, and there’s no point in you being in a position where you might have to pay for his poor choices. Congratulations on getting out before it’s too late As far as communicating with him, it’s probably going to be difficult. Since you’re on your way out, you might want to just avoid conflict with him as much as possible. You already know that any communication with him could be a lot of trouble, and likely won’t make a lot of meaningful progress. I think the old saying still applies, “If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all.” It’s up to you to decide if any given conversation is likely to degrade to one or both of you saying not-nice things. If you do have to talk with him about important things you can’t avoid, you have to be the adult in the conversation. In my pharmacy communications course they taught us that some people don’t want to discuss things like an adult, and your best course of a
