I understand this. Sometimes silence isn’t distance but protection,especially when you’ve learned that being vulnerable hasn’t always been met with care. Holding back..not because it doesn’t matter, but because it matters too much.
Ari🪷@arikoyarii
people who go silent when something upsets or hurts them, experience a coping mechanism called emotional withdrawal. It's not that they have nothing to say, it's bc their system learned that silence is safer than being misunderstood. Instead of expressing anger, they hold it in
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