Yes that's it. The external situations just batter them and they mentally retreat, not necessarily because they're weak. It's the repressed
, the latent will. Every day the problem escalates. Pertaining to interpersonal conflicts, it's so easy to just let everything just slip by. A fight is not really worth risking all the time, so they wait and see if they will have to resort to that by letting it go on. They can explode, though in a different manner than other types, pure physical aggression(E8). I assume IEIs are similar.