The “silent treatment” is when a person refuses to communicate with someone because they are angry or upset. It can sometimes be a form of emotional abuse. The silent treatment may be abusive if one ...

The silent treatment: A technique to demonstrate to another person that you’re pissed off with them. Only it’s not just that. It’s a passive type of emotional abuse where one party feels it’s best to ...

Childhood experiences and memories are meant to be looked back with a fondness of love and joy, but for others, they can hold an undercurrent of pain and uncertainty. For those who have experienced ...

One of the most painful ways to "punish" your partner is through silence and indifference. This means cutting off all contact with them. It's called the "Silent Treatment." So, why do people use it, ...

The silent treatment is a refusal to verbally communicate with another person. People who use the silent treatment may have trouble communicating pain. When the silent treatment becomes a pattern, it ...

Most of the time, your relationship with your partner is #goals. You’re both kind and considerate, you laugh during all the same scenes of The Office (even though you’ve seen it a hundred times ...

Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager are weighing in on the silent treatment. On the April 3 episode of TODAY With Hoda & Jenna, the co-anchors shared their thoughts about using the technique on people they ...

The silent treatment is an unhealthy way to express anger. Communication is so much better. How would you react if s a friend gave you the silent treatment? Would you try to find out what’s wrong, or ...

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Many couples can relate to the reality that silence is not golden, especially after a disagreement. Healthy communication repairs and restores relational rifts, while silence can be deafening in its ...

“Ever since I told her about a failed investment, she won’t speak to me. She said that it was the ‘last straw’ and now she’s been silent for three months.” “My son stopped talking to me nine months ...