Q.I married a man with a very nice daughter -- one of the reasons I married him -- but she is going on 10 and does very few things for herself. I'm afraid she will become too dependent to think ...

Now to your primary concern of her shyness and the supervisor’s assessment of her as unassertive. Could it be that as a parent you may have inadvertently facilitated your daughter’s embrace of ...

My constant apologizing was taking a toll on how I was communicating with others. It made me seem unassertive, less confident, and fundamentally disingenuous. The first time I realized my sorrys ...

We take it as truth that how assertive or unassertive we are affects every aspect of our lives, including work and relationships. Culturally, we link assertiveness to success, leadership ...

You might think that women act less assertively than men do. But in relationships, men are often unassertive with women. In a year-long relationship with Gina,* Doug learned the rules about what ...

As Leonard, the blandly unassertive Chicago tailor of men’s bespoke suits that we first meet in “The Outfit” — or as Leonard himself would put it more modestly, a “cutter” — Mark ...

MANILA, Philippines—President Benigno Aquino was described by the former United States’ envoy as “diffident and unassertive”, secret cables published by anti-secrecy website Wikileaks reveal.