Cold Shoulder: how to react?
What is the behavior we call getting or giving the cold shoulder? It is a deliberate discourteous act: the maintenance of aloof silence toward another person who is our relative or spouse as an expression of one’s anger or disapproval. Are you getting the cold shoulder, and you don’t know why? Well, this is the […]
Is it anger or desperation?
What do you see here? Anger o Desperation? The divide between emotional and rational styles to manage disputes are the main hidden factors of our conflicts. The lenses (emotional or rational) we apply to manage a confrontation with our loved one is usually a main contributor to the communication gap we produce and suffer. […]
Passive Aggressive Non-Communication Battles
We need to be talking first about the shared responsibility to keep communication alive in a marriage.
To avoid getting to this place, women usually try to ask, demand, invite and cajole husbands into “better communication.” They even make appointments with counselors and therapists and priests to get help.