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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the silent treatment shows a lack of maturity and is abusive.[/quote]

x a million.  any woman who says otherwise is full of BS (just consider the responses if the genders were reversed.....)[/quote]

I guess I don't agree that letting your partner know you need time and space to cool off = silent treatment. If a woman (or a man) does it to punish their spouse or freeze them out, that's one thing. But if either spouse needs a few hours or a day to gather their thoughts before sitting down to have a calm conversation, I fail to see how that's abuse. Can you explain? [/quote]

The two are very different and the non-silent party knows the difference.  For example, my mother refuses to talk to me for days.  She has a scowl on her face the entire time to let you know that she is NOT happy.   It creates all kinds of negative/stressful energy.  She drops it as soon as she gets her way.  [/quote]

That's totally different from what PP are saying, and even different from the example OP gave. I would agree that such a situation is abusive because your mother was using her silence to pressure you and punish you, not to cool off from a disagreement.

I usually tell my husband, "look, we're not getting anywhere. Let's just drop it for now and talk tomorrow/after work/etc". It's still really hard for him to just stop the conversation because he likes to have it out right then and there, but he knows I'm not just ignoring him. [/quote]

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