Don’t try to silence that confrontational attitude in your daughter! I was that kid once. I wasn’t non-confrontational by birth. I was just beat down by teachers and my peers constantly telling me that I was too loud, annoying, or that no one cared about my opinion. I toned myself down to get the approval of other…

Interesting read.

For me as a man who has always been somewhat conflict averse I haven’t found that my conflict aversion has lead to passive aggressiveness on my part, but instead has manifested itself in isolation and resentment.

After years of analyzing it I realized that my aversion to conflict is borne of a fear of…