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Being subjected to the silent treatment?

 

Did you know this can be a form of manipulation to punish you and make you comply? Alternatively, you can choose to see it as the person needing time to lick his/her perceived wounds. Rather than tiptoeing around them, trying to find out what upset them and put it right or giving in to the potential manipulation, a great tool is to tell them that you give them permission to take however long they need to work out whatever is bothering them. Tell them that you trust them to know how to resolve whatever it is, then go about your business, get on with your life.

 

This gives them a sense of power over themselves. It gives them a feeling of being respected. It takes away any sense of you having the answer to solving what is essentially their problem. It breaks the enmeshment of the potential game. It frees you up to use the time for something profitable for you instead of feeling wretched and uncertain while focussing on them.

 

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