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Ask Kanika — answering a member question: "What's the strongest way to react to silent treatment? How do you regain power in the situation, especially when they come back? Is it possible to change the pattern already started forming by…

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The way you beat this is to be the person who is always willing to walk away The way I deal with silent treatment is I take all the oxygen from them So if they're going to ignore me and then come back to me later, not only will I never respond I will ensure that every single time they're left on scene if you want to break this pattern early what you need to do is Start showing them how unstable you can be So you can give them the silent treatment and then you can go back to being bubbly and incredible and you know All of these vivacious and lively things. Okay, you can do all of that You can go back to that but when you alternate it with silence then it becomes sort of like a drug that they're seeking and they need more and more of That drug and that means not being able to be part of a silent treatment Silent treatment is by all means abuse like it is a form of literal abuse So people using it Generally, they're aware of that and it doesn't make them great people But the thing that eats away at absolutely everyone is silence people can't handle silence people can't Handle like not being given an answer it's like Humans will die if they can't explain something or get an answer like

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