the silent treatment

The silent treatment is a cruel punishment when in truth the person

doing it is inadequate to the task of responding. Love is response.

Response-ability and to whom one is responsive are the tell-tale signs

of level of maturity. We might even equate the silent treatment to a 

pout. What do you do when people don't do or say what you want

them to do or say? Do you pout or give them the silent treatment?

 

When parents do it to their children, it puts a lid on that child's

future abillity to respond, and to love.

 

Families who use the silent treatment are unloving families and

if you look closely you will see it's destructiveness on members.

Some family members use it for weeks and months. That provides

-0- support. I wonder what happens to the bones when there

is no support thru the developmental years.

 

"I don't like what you say, so I'm not going to talk to you." (a telltale

sign of lack of love, and immaturity). Groups of people in organizations,

clubs,and churchs expand on this and with their aversions turn it 

into war.   

 

So what, you say?  Be aware.