Category Archives: silent treatment

What Child Abuse Does to The Brain

Child abuse is just as prevalent as it ever was, but now that the psychological effects of abuse are being studied in more depth, we are gaining more understanding about the effects of abuse on a person’s life, both as a child and an adult. Child abuse can lead to an adult who practices the same [...]

Getting the Cold Shoulder from Your Loved One?

  In life there are always difficult interpersonal situations, which force us into soul searching because we want to change fast what is hurting us so deeply. Are you kept by your loved one in hurtful, frustrating, and confusing isolation, and you don’t know why? Have you always been afraid of confronting someone you love, [...]

Hidden Rage and Open Revenge

There are a lot of people walking about with a sense of false entitlement, as if others owe them something. They don’t even need to express what they need, because others have to guess or assume what is expected from them. Many of a “cold shoulder” episode between partners stems from this assumption Let’s unpack [...]

Fight Back Passive Aggressive Actions!

Is very easy to discover the inherent pain that a relationship based on passive aggression brings. It is important that you identify exactly the behaviors that trigger your confusion, isolation or anger, and ascribe them to his peculiar way of doing life in general. You are not responsible for his attitude, learned in his childhood. [...]