Few emotional experiences are as frustrating, isolating, and downright painful as being ignored by someone you love. Whether ...

Giving someone the silent treatment can make them feel excluded and ignored. Find out why people do it, whether it is abuse, and how to respond. Medical News Today ...

Silent-treatment inflictors do it because, as the sailors discovered, it was devastatingly effective in imposing pain on the recipient. So much pain, in fact, that it can leave a person scarred ...

S ilent treatment is being at war where you can’t see your enemy but the reminders exist. Men are brought to their knees by silent war when they are dating and left questioning whether they are ...

Often the silent treatment is about enacting revenge on someone who hurt you. And while revenge might sound dramatic, when we are hurt by someone and then choose to hurt them that’s exactly what ...

Silent treatment compels a person to seek the other’s attention, approval or affection, stirring feelings of confusion, anxiety or worthlessness, explains Dubai-based Katherine Greene, a stress ...

Silent treatment can be hurtful, infact a form of emotional abuse. People may resort to silent treatment when trying to suppress hurt feelings or not wanting to address hidden emotions.

Not all instances of silent treatment stem from a place of hurt. Some individuals employ it as a means to control their partner. Patrick Mugisha, a Kampala-based relationship coach, warns that ...

Giving your kid the silent treatment when you’re angry about something, adds adolescent psychologist Barbara Greenberg, “is one of the worst types of punishment, because it is basically ...

Screenshots from a February 19 TikTok video of a cat giving his owner the silent treatment. He will sit right outside the room with his back turned. The owner left him cool off.

Silent treatment: A strategy wrecking marriages (Photo: iStock) Duncan Muema* fell in love with a girl he met in college seven years ago. She was what young people would term a girl with ‘good ...