Tag Archives: Cold Shoulder

How to Reinforce Love, Day In and Day Out

As we learn more and more about the human brain and conflict, we learn more about how to feel better in relationships, how to care for one another, and how to change negative energy into positive energy. For example – do you and your partner constantly fight? Are there certain behaviors that, whenever your partner [...]

Build relationship skills: assertion

We find too many times in situations where there is friction and a deep sense of frustration of basic emotional needs. In life, we deal with other people sometimes as short in skills as we are to be able to talk and express needs and negotiate positive solutions. Haven’t you found yourself in a deep [...]

Emotional abuse using silence

The silent treatment, also known as the “cold shoulder treatment,” consists of feigned apathy, total silence, and being distant on purpose. One person displays an attitude of complete disinterest for the spouse, as if the other person would be a complete stranger.

Cold shoulder = emotional abuse?

The silent treatment, also known as the “cold shoulder treatment,” consists of feigned apathy, total silence, and being distant on purpose. One person displays an attitude of complete disinterest for the spouse, as if the other person would be a complete stranger. This form of emotional abuse can be very disorienting. Being ignored on purpose [...]

Steps to be happier in 2010

If you are reading this blog, is because there is a sad side of your relationship. Instead of having security and support, constant appreciation and warm contact, you get indifference, hostility and sometimes outright abuse. It is sad, and sometimes you think: Am I going ever to be happy? Today, with the excitement of the [...]