MLC or Passive Aggressive or Narcissism

[sleeper]

Snodderly,

This thread has changed the way I view mlc as it relates to PA types. I'm not sure they will ever "hit bottom". My X experienced a very chaotic, abused childhood. When really bad things would happen to us in our marriage she often would discount my reaction, often remarking, "That's life". Hitting bottom as we say could just be another "That's life" moment for them.

That could be why some go from one OP to another and some seem to have reduced quality of life but just keep plugging along doing the mlc shuffle (ex. When some post ____ has happened to their X and they can't believe that didn't snap them out of it).