The silent treatment activates the same pain centres in the brain as physical injury.
Your nervous system goes into panic, searching for safety in the very person who just withdrew it.

This is how control is maintained: through your body’s desperate need to reconnect.

But here’s the truth — their silence isn’t about you.
It’s a form of emotional manipulation designed to punish and destabilise.

You can’t force them to speak… but you can stop silencing yourself.
Healing begins when you learn to regulate your body, name the abuse for what it is, and reclaim your voice.