Adults find it difficult to cope when their partner refuses to communicate or interact with them.
They can become insecure, resentful and it makes them feel abandoned.
Now imagine how a child feels when a parent ignores them for days.
This teaches the child when I do something wrong, I don’t exist.
This is teaching the child love is conditional and their need to connect is dismissed.
The child’s number one need is to know they can count on their parent’s connection, no matter what.
When a parent refuses to acknowledge their child, it produces anger, anxiety, insecurity, low self worth and the silent treatment is used to punish, manipulate and it is emotional abuse.
If a parent is in the habit of repeating this behaviour, the child learns their boundaries are not respected and they have no voice.
It affects them psychologically long term and they carry the effect of this emotional abuse into their adult relationship where they repeat the same behaviour with their partner or they attract someone who will do it to them.
When a parent consistently gives their child the silent treatment, they instil in their child feelings of fear, abandonment, insecurities, no confidence, rejection, unlovable, and their behaviour may escalate or they will learn to shut down.
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