Yeah, that's TOTAL crap @ Opal & Mina. You have nowhere to get away from it. Bloody Bastards =(

I've never done it intentionally in a romantic relationship, although I have done to people that annoy me. I have done it because I had to in a romantic relationship and it drove my Gemini ex mad. I'm never totally silent as I'm too polite forgo the 'good mornings' and 'please's and 'thank you's. I will just cease all other communication

Silence is so powerful. It is so difficult to fight and argue with.

If I do go silent it is because I feel there is nothing left I can say. I feel like I'm not being listened to and it is not worth my while trying. I will be in state of deep hurt. It means I've given up on you.

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@McKenna--*dry smile/voice* Yes, I believe it's called my childhood by most people. Hence moving out at 18, then moving up here at 21.

I looooove being my own person, and making my own decisions, and swearing in public, and just.....loving my rather quirky self fully, rather than hating it, and being confused about my identity. I think I turned myself out pretty good after "re-raising" myself for a few years as a young adult, with the help of some loving friends. : )

But I think it disturbs some people sometimes when I say that having a good dad, and a good relationship with him is a privilege, not a right we all get in life. I accept him for who he was, and likely is now, and I wish him well on his separate journey.

Yes I do this. How does it feel. Restricting. I want to vent, I want to get it out, but I don't want to say something so damaging I will regret it. (Sun in Scorpio in the 12th) And though my Mars is in my 11th, it seems that I have this often enough with my ex with who I must have some explosive aspects. When he got angry enough to rage at me, I would just shut down. But if he could hold his own and keep baraging me in a logical tit for tat, I would just keep vollying back and forth until he would give up. But if I shut down...it was because that is when the real vitriol might let loose and it would be too destructive.

(((Opal))) My ex used to do that to me, he was Virgo/Gemini/Capricorn; and I'm a Leo.

It sucked, and he was adept with different types of passive-aggressive behaviour; the silent treatment was but one trick in his bag. Me, I don't play around. I'll look to have it out with you, and if you want to be evasive; I'll evaporate. I'll disengage and do something else without you; but that's what he wanted. This ploy backfired on him once though, when I took a hammer and smashed literally every breakable item in his tattoo/art studio; to dust. I was full-up, and after I was driven to such action; thus began a long process for me of assessing, and then finally dissolving our relationship. Peace is not the same as the silent treatment. I've been single for just over nine years, and I have peace now. I will never live that way again.