Have you ever found yourself at the other end of a chilly silence with no explanation from the source or have you been the source of the tendency to apply the silent treatment on another? Why use this mode of response?

NO WAY!!!

I am the extreme oppisite.....


i am VOCAL......


and if ya give me the silent treatment.....


ohhhh baby i will go on non stop till ya wanna die!!

power and control

emotional abuse

I've used it before. Sometimes I'm just too upset or frustrated to deal with the situation. I want to be left alone for a while, calm down, get over it, maybe even have time to think. I have kept it up for up to 3 days. Some things I feel so strongly or so confused about that I literally need that long. If I don't take the full time, then I will be rushed into talking about it before I am ready to communicate effectively. I think there's no problem with using it like that, but I could be wrong.

Absolutely, get the response and let's move on right...

It can be be both to some...how about if you were chatting with someone or dating and all of a sudden the silent treatment, then what are your thoughts.

I have to end a bad situation. The old saying it's better to walk away then stay and suffer. Some people like to carry on about things and have a problem not stopping. So with my ex, when she would carry on and i mean carry on about something. The I have to have an answer. I would clam up and walk away to defuse the situation.

In this case if your sitting on a thought then silencing that until you have come to an agreement with yourself is another thing..but when using to other use that are negative in nature is another thing.

Some people you just can't reach. So it is better to just walk away.

Yes this is true, but how about the silent treatment used when the other person doesn't know the "why"

I have a big mouth. I'm rarely silent (unless I'm sick lol)

If someone else gives me the silent treatment...I take it as a vacation

Always find something positive

Absolutely a quick way to resolve the issue, however have you ever pondered about the why question to the person's action as a mode of response.

I've questioned it, but what good does it do? If they can't communicate with me, I'm not going to go out of my way or spend my time wondering just to make him talk to me

I feel what your saying I wouldn't do that either; I just often wonder why people do that, just say what it is and we can both mentally move on...but to simply apply that response demonstrates some form of inadequacy in their part.

IMO they are playing a game. They either want the attention or maybe they don't know how to express themselves

Yes, I agree....

they are either on drugs and not sharing, which will piss me off or they are ignoring me..which will piss me off even more..

either way...Im done with them.

I don't use it, I find it annoying. If theres a problem and you need time to think, open your mouth and say it. If I did something you didn't like and your pissed, than say something. If one person is not communciating, and the other doesn't know why-- How is it going to be fixed.

It is annoying, and I truly dislike when someone uses this type of mode to respond, I find it to be an action of cowardness.

silent treatment? does that mean when a man is trying 2 sleep and his girl is talking and we hear u but do not listen?