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The Sabrina Zohar Show

156: When Your Partner Shuts Down Emotionally, DO THIS!

The Sabrina Zohar Show

The Sabrina Zohar Show

Mental Health, Education, Relationships, Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.94.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Sabrina dives deep into one of the toughest relationship struggles—emotional shutdowns. She breaks down how to recognize silent treament or stonewalling, why it happens, and how to reclaim your power when you're left emotionally abandoned. Learn how to set boundaries and communicate your needs without enabling unhealthy patterns.

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0:00.0

Welcome back, my babes. You know I love my solos with you guys. And I hope you guys are liking them too.

0:05.3

I've been trying really, really hard to accommodate the best I can. And today, we're going to talk about something that is a silent relationship killer, but is really fucking brutal and so hard, what to do when your partner shuts down. How do you handle this, the stonewalling or the dismissive?

0:03.4

No, no, no, no, baby.

0:04.5

We're going to talk about it all today because I got you.

0:06.7

And as always, no, no, no, baby. We're

0:22.1

going to talk about it all today because I got you. And as always, guys, you know, we are here for you. If you need anything, you want to work one-on-one, you want to join a course. So we have some updates. We are changing courses around. We have the foundation course. It's never going away. And if you're part of a course, don't worry, you're never going to lose it. But we're going to be taking

0:19.8

some things away, adding some things in, hopefully creating a membership soon. Like, I am

0:23.9

ready to expand, to grow, and to build a deeper community with you guys. So please just know everything is there. The foundation course, you can work one-on-one, ask a question, free guides, whatever you need. Everything will be at Sabrinazohar.com or the link in bio. And I've got your back, babies. And if not, thank you for just listening

0:54.4

to the show. It means the fucking world. So, without further ado, let's get right on into it, shall we? Hello, babies. Good to see you guys. Good to be here. I'm excited. I love solo time. It's my fave. I really do. I enjoy it because I get to really connect with you guys. And as always, if you're following along on the socials,

0:51.3

thank you for submitting your questions.

0:53.4

Sabrina Zohar or the Sabrina Zohar Show on Insta. I do a question box for almost every episode so you guys can ask. And that's how one, you'll hear me say, someone asked this. That's where it comes from. So as always, guys, thank you, thank you for rating and reviewing the show. Thank you for following along. Thank you for sending it to your friends. Please don't forget, even if you just leave a heart, any kind of comment, any kind of engagement, it means the world. And that's how we grow. Even if you just say Marcus finished on the episode, it literally is just the most beneficial thing I can do. And if you guys want more, don't forget, you can subscribe ad free to get it for four doll hairs a month.

1:44.7

But whatever you guys need, if not, I'm just grateful to have you here.

1:47.8

So let's get into it.

1:49.0

Let's talk about one of the cruelest things someone can do to you without laying a fucking finger on you.

1:53.3

And that's the silent treatment that people often disguise as, I need space.

1:57.0

And you know exactly what the fuck I'm talking about, right?

1:59.1

Mid-conversation, they just disappear. Not physically. Like, they might be sitting there, but emotionally left the building. And you're left talking to a fucking wall wondering, what did I do wrong? And I think we have to be able to hold space because I think a lot of this conversation is nuanced. And I want to just clarify that ahead of time. Because I got the data, right, I have the studies, I have all that that fun shit but I think what's really at the core of this is also trusting ourselves to be able to identify what's coming up and so what I mean by that is you know somebody shutting down in the middle of a conversation where you're sitting there if it happens once in a blue moon well that's a human right I've had that where Ryan and I might be mid well we're talking about something intense and I'll just kind of sit there for a minute and you can see I'm checked out. And it's like, obviously my partner knows, typically speaking, I'm incredibly communicative. So when I shut down like that, there's something going on, right? I think my system's overwhelmed. Like I'm just overloaded at that time. But that's not my pattern. And I think that's really what I see a lot.

2:53.7

And like some of the questions I got were like the long silent treatment for five minutes.

2:57.6

I waited patiently and then they didn't respond.

2:59.8

Why does my partner shutting down affect me so much?

3:01.6

How do I take my power back?

3:02.9

And really that like that last one, right?

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