Wait... YOU are giving ME the silent treatment?!?!

[the1much]

i could only HOPE and DREAM for "the silent treatment"

 

[Chellester]

Dump him and get yourself a guy who is man enough to treat you right. Count your blessings you didn't marry him already.

Oh, and not sleeping with a guy until you are married is not a guarantee that he won't treat you like **** once you are.

 

[Wildsky]

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Don't forget the French maid's outfit while you wash & wax the car and truck and riding lawn mower...

Don't forget to clean and polish any tools that are lying around - and put them in their proper place.


Seriously, just ignore the silent treatment, take a break - kick back - and enjoy the silence!

 

[Lunachick]

I agree with enjoying the "quiet time". If you're having fun without him, he's gonna wonder what's up, and maybe he'll come around when he realizes that you CAN have fun without his grumpy company. I do hope it works out for you though.

Paul and I have been married almost 33 years, so I've experienced those silent times just as he has experienced my moods etc., and when we lost one of our (much loved) hens on Friday, I never expected my hubby to cry as much as he did. It somehow made me appreciate him a lot more than I would have imagined.

Guys generally don't show much emotion, hence the silent treatment.

 

[horsejody]

Just ignore it and enjoy the silence. While sitting there in your peaceful bliss, you can seriously consider whether or not to dump the clown. He sounds high maintenance me. If you coddle him and tolerate it, it will get worse. If he wants a mommy to take care of him, he should move back in with his mother.

 

[Biddieacres]

In the words of my dear grandmother....."Oh, go scratch your mad place"!

Always makes me laugh thinking of her saying that to grandpa or anyone else who gave her attitude.

 

[Quail_Antwerp]

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In this house, you would be out the door

(I am hoping you are being sarcastic! Dry sense of humor maybe?)

My husband and I work together to meet eachother's needs. We do everything together.

 

[WriterofWords]

The "silent treatment" is nothing more than a control tool he probably learned from his own father or mother. Men know women are communicators and they know you will sit and stew and beg to find out what "I did wrong" to make him behave this way.

First: recognize you have done nothing wrong.
Second: recognize he is behaving in a childish manner unbefitting an adult male.
Third: tell him flat out you will not tolerate it, don't ask why he is doing it, and tell him to please extend this treatment as long as possible while he thinks of someway to apologize to you for it.

I guarantee he will start talking immediately to defend himself. Ignore it and walk away.

Get rid of him. He is not going to change, and nothing you do will change that. Accept it.

Singlehood is good.

 

[luvzmybabz]

d.k :

For dinner tonight-- You could try plopping a can of spegettios down in front of him.

I will tell you what happened a couple of weeks ago at Drama Acres.

I spent Sunday afternoon making goat cheese and themn 2 hours on dinner. When he ate all he could do, for 15 minutes, was critque the food what he would have done different etc. Then he went and got seconds! I gathered my things and went to the bedroom. He comes in acting like nothing happened. A little background, when my hubbie cooks he spends 2 hours after fishing for compliments when I really can't understand how I can swallow some of the crap he makes...................... So for the next 3 mights I instead of making what hubby would like for dinner I make what the kids and I perfer and he hates Tuna Cassarole with peas (from Scratch) and beenie weenies, finally on the thirs night he figured it out that things were not peachy around here. Then he grips about things around the house and outside ( his domain before he got this job) and so I saw OK for the next 2 days for the exact time that you would have been at work (he was off on temp disability) he had to take both kids that are having huge personality changes lately and do what he expects of me. I wrote him a list and ignored him and the kids for 12 hours, by midmorning of the 2nd day he had apoligized, and the house was trashed. He is back at work now but when he gets home from his 12 hour shift he has chores outside sorry about the flashlight but I dod not want you to take that job anyway. when he gets back inside his dinner is ready we eat them I go into other room to have some ME time.​

 

[Biddieacres]

Well said "writer of words"