Passive aggressiveness

Im sure we all have had those friends right. The ones who say words that have underlying meaning. They say things but act like nothing is wrong or use words that would make you think that they really are trying to put you down or express anger or something. Well I deal with many of those people in my life. Oddly enough they seem to be the people who are most near and dear to me. It doesnt always make alot of sense to me why people cant be straightforward with me. My mother was the Queen of Passive Agressive Land (stole that one from Greys Anatomy, my new absolute favorite show). She ruled all the other people of the land called Passive Agressive. She is so passive agressive that when you tell her about other people who are passive aggressive she says with utmost sincerity "well you know no one in this house has ever been that way." I wanted to back away from her for fear that the lightening would hit me too. Or maybe she is just completely unaware of her passive aggression. Well the point of the story is that passive aggression hurts and so all of you people who say you dont do this and do just stop, get to the point, tell how you are truly feeling and make life more bearable for the rest of us. I am not freeing myself of guilt because I too have suffered from this but actually am a recovering aggressor. All I ask is that if you are one of those people, especially a friend of mine and think this may be directed at you it probably is and I am asking you to just tell me things flat out, dont say one thing and mean another because it is pretty likely I can read the underlying meaning anyways so just cut to the chase.

ANYWAYS............I am not doing so well here. 3 posts of which I think 2 have been a gripe fest. No more I say. I commit to the next post being nothing but anti gripe talk. Y'all hold me to it too.

The only other thing I want to add is that God is good and He was with Billy and I yesterday while in court for my husbands Failure to Use His Brain While Driving a Car hearing. He had gotten two tickets for speeding (both 25 over the speed limit) and he had plead guilty with court supervision for the first one so he needed to have no more incidents in 3 months to get the ticket off of his record otherwise they would both go on his record. Approximately 35 days later he received his 2nd ticket. When I asked God for a good husband I never mentioned one who could drive. We decided to go to court and try to put in a mercy plea. That we got. Although we ended up paying $175 for the ticket and court costs we got his supervision extended which was such a blessing. I just have to praise God for that because it truly was mercy that kept us from having to pay a gazillion dollars for insurance if those tickets would have posted to his record. The power of prayer is an amazing thing. I realize that prayer is so much more than just asking for things but this was situation where he truly granted us mercy and I just want to praise him for that.