Thanks, Sleeps. There's a lot of truth in what you say. What I really don't understand is the manipulation as a way of managing one's life. I don't understand it and I certainly couldn't begin to pull it off to save my soul!

I suppose passive/agressive behavior is a learned trait, right? It just had never occurred to me before. He is a very stubborn person so I don't know how he would have or does react now to having had a controlling parent. Before he met this woman, he seemed to be unusually healthy, mentally. "Tis a puzzlement."

Do you feel that there is any way to give support to this man?