Gunnysacking

What is gunnysacking? It sounds like it should not be a word but it is. Gunnysacking is the practice of storing up grievances so they may be unloaded at another time.pg 284 My sister for example gunnysackes a lot. She is very quiet and when something is bothering her she tends to hold it in. Her and my oldest sister currently are living together. you can call my oldest sister the youngest. My middle sister never says anything when the bills are unpaided. She takes up the slack from the oldest sister when she does not pay the bill. I know she gets mad at times but she never shows it. This has happened more than once. What the middle sister does is let it build up over time and then have a break down. To avoid gunnysacking, she should have said something in the beginning to she wouldn't have all this pressure build up inside of her because she ran herself crazy.http://www.blogger.com/www.wfu.edu/~louden/Interpersonal/IPC%20Materials/Defensive%20Communication.ppt