![]() Time-outs are constructive, time bound, reassuring or neutral, mutually understood and agreed upon, and meant to help find solutions in the end. Sometimes the silent treatment is confused with the healthier time-out. ![]() And so the cycle continues, often with shortening periods of honeymoon behavior and increasing amounts of abuse. The victim, however, desperately wants things to go back to normal. It is a way to manipulate and subjugate another into submission, and compliance, distress, and discomfort are the intended goals for the narcissist. In other words, it is only one tool of many that may be simultaneously employed by the narcissist to ensure control over another person. ![]() ![]() It can be explicit or subtle, in private or public, recognizable by others or not, and usually coexists with other forms of abuse. Basically, the silent treatment is a passive-aggressive behavior by which an abuser communicates some sort of negative message to the intended victim that only the perpetrator and the victim recognize through nonverbal communication. ![]()
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