Communication
What’s the difference between ‘nagging’ and communicating?
Where does the word nagging come from? The word is derived from the Scandinavian nagga, which means “to gnaw”. Reporter Elizabeth Bernstein defined, in a Wall Street Journal article, nagging as “the interaction in which one person repeatedly makes a request, the other person repeatedly ignores it and both become increasingly annoyed”. She states: “Many more marriages will deal with nagging…
