"Gunny-Sacking"

In choosing the concept from the reading I try to choose one where in which I relate to or am most intrigued by, and this week that concept was "gunny-sacking". This concept caught my attention because it is a term I have never heard before in any of my communication classes. The book suggests that people may want to assert themselves more often throughout conflict in order to avoid gunny-sacking. Gunny-sacking is when one chooses to continually be passive during conflict and in doing so they store up anger and hurt. But eventually all the anger and frustration builds up until the person explodes into an emotional outburst. So many times have I personally heard people say as the book quotes, "If only he said something. I never knew there was a problem." Being more assertive and expressing your emotions beforehand can help save drifting relationships before gunny sacking-occurs.