• Venting: Complaining to release strong emotions
• The Active Effective Complaint: The complainer makes a specific complaint addressed at the person responsible, in order to improve the situation
• The Ineffective Complaint: Complaining in order to feel some s...

It’s about controlling someone’s behavior through negative reinforcement. 

It is persistently bothering someone to do something you want them to do. 

Complaining is exhausting because it puts pressure on the other person. 

Learn to compromise and empathize:

In the context of poor communication, criticizing is when you knock someone down for the wrong reasons: to hurt someone, to vent your frustrations or to boost your ego.

When you blame someone, you take any responsibility off of yourself and put it on them. 

It’s focused on control. Often used in relation to rewards. But with a reward, you’re communicating a desirable behavior is. With bribery, you really don’t care if your message gets through, you just want to control and stop a behavior in an artificial way.