Love Your Love Life

"Longevity in relationship comes with personal sacrifice."
What are the boundaries?
How far are you prepared to compromise on your own wants, needs and desires in order to stay in a relationship?

RELATIONSHIP MATTERS
THE SILENT TREATMENT
One of the most important functions of maintaining trust and building healthy relationship is to manage and resolve conflict.
... Silence breeds contempt.
It's made worse when challenged by insecurity and it takes communicating for reconciliation to happen. This requires humility, courage, vulnerability, honesty. Some people use silence to get back, to punish the other person. Also, some people use silence as a passive attempt to manipulate the other person or control situations.
A vindictive, or punitive ploy, when used in this way is very damaging for a relationship. In a manner of, "They deserve this", "They should've known better.”, “They should've done, said differently", 'I'll teach him" etc. There are other reasons, social awkwardness, shyness, emotional immaturity, power imbalance within relationship, fear of conflict or anxiety. A thinking that some things are better left.
Have you been impacted by the silent treatment? How do you use silence?
If you have been impacted by uncomfortable silence in your relationships, feel free to talk to me. I can help you to work through a whole range of common relationship problems. Contact me now.
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