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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Silent treatment is emotional abuse. By this I do not mean stepping back and being quiet while you calm down and sort your feelings and thoughts out. You can respectfully say, hey I need a day to back off, cool down, and think. But to purposely not speak to someone is abusive. It makes a person feel bad--invalidated, unloved, trapped and punished. All effects of abusive behavior.[/quote] You nailed this on the head. The worse part about this is that as a child, teen, and college student my mother continued to do this to me. Now as a young adult, I am finally fighting back by telling her she cannot treat me this way. It actually wasn't something she was aware she was doing to me until I labeled it and called her out on it. I just wished I had known about it 25+ years ago. [/quote]
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