sometime.”
Aggressive Communication
Aggressive communication involves expressing your feelings, needs, or wants at the 
expense of another’s feelings, needs, and wants. Aggressive communication tends to be 
judgmental, critical, and accusatory in content and tone. Like passive communication, 
this style of responding closes the channels of communication and can result in hurt feel -
ings, grudges, anger, and alienation from the other person. An example of an aggressive 
way of asking someone to socialize is the statement, “If you cared about me and weren’t 
so selﬁsh, you would invite me to get together with you more often.”