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* or share this coping mechanism

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There may be another similarity....not so much in silent treatment but rather how a person may self reflect, strategize, you know, think about situations, what to do about them, whether it’s positive or negative, how to turn things around, sometimes I wonder if that’s what we do during some part of what is seen a silent treatment. I know men take that time to mentally go over things. I wonder if your dad was so angry at times he couldn’t really speak and didn’t want to deal with anybody for a while and then maybe some of it was just trying to figure out what went wrong and how to control his own emotions or actions. Sometimes I get so worked up that I just get quiet because I don’t want to yell at anybody, and it ends up being me just thinking about my own issues.  I also wonder with my own father, if military men might have similar issues.

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