197: How to Handle the Silent Treatment with Dignity

The Empowered Wife Podcast: Marriage Help with Laura Doyle

Laura Doyle

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🗓️ 29 August 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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The silent treatment can make you feel really bad and make you desperate to end the tension. It’s scary and takes up a lot of energy wondering how long it’s going to last, if it’s still on, and if there’s something you should be doing differently to fix it. It feels horribly rejecting when someone you love won’t speak to you, answer you, or look at you—like a punishment with no end to the sentence. So what can you do when you’re being shut out? On today’s episode of The Empowered Wife Podcast, we’re talking about how to handle the silent treatment with dignity.

I’ll share 3 experiments to try if what you’re doing doesn’t feel so dignified and you want to shorten or stop the silent treatment.
Plus, my guest Deanna’s marriage was hurting from betrayal on both sides when she stumbled on The Surrendered Wife book and this podcast. She started applying the 6 Intimacy Skills™ right away and was amazed at what happened after only a few days. Today she feels loving and loved. She’s going to tell us how she did it so you can do it too.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Emparag wife podcast where it's all about fixing your relationship without your man's conscious effort
0:16.8	so that you feel taken care of desired and special, even if your relationship feels completely hopeless right now.
0:24.6	I'm Laura Doyle, and today we're talking about how to handle the silent treatment with dignity.
0:31.9	My guest, Deanna's marriage was hurting from betrayal on her side and emotional betrayal
0:37.1	on his side when she stumbled on the Surundered Wife book and this podcast. And she started applying the intimacy skills right away and was
0:46.3	amazed at what happened after only a few days. Today she feels loving and
0:51.9	loved.
0:53.0	She's going to tell us how she did it so you can do it too.
0:56.0	That's coming up, but first, let's discuss how to handle silent treatment with dignity
1:01.0	because the silent treatment can make you feel really bad and make you
1:05.5	desperate to end the tension. It's one of the scariest things because it takes up a lot of energy wondering like how long does this
1:14.7	going to last I mean is it still on is there something you should be doing
1:19.6	differently to fix it it feels horribly rejecting when someone you love won't speak to you or
1:28.0	answer you or look at you. It's like a punishment with no end to the sentence.
1:35.0	So what can you do when you're being shut out to keep your dignity?
1:41.0	Well here are three experiments to try if what you're doing doesn't feel so dignified.
1:47.0	Number one, make yourself happy. Of course, you're stressed out and things feel tense so it might seem impossible to make
1:56.9	yourself happy right now. I mean who giggles at a comedy show when their husband has shut them out, right? Who dances down the hallway when the air in your house is frosty?
2:09.5	Who shares funny memes when your husband won't even look at you.
2:14.0	Well, if you do, a couple of things could happen, like you could stop suffering.
2:21.0	So that's worthwhile right there. However long the cold
2:25.3	last, you're having a good time. And even though it's still painful that he's
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