From personal experience, my take on receipt of the silent treatment. It lasted three days, the first time. With my pleading, that I don't like going to bed angry, that whatever it is I can handle hearing it. It stripped me down, as I'm apt to self blame(note my depression and anxiety both not elsewhere specified and nos), it forced my hand into a walking on eggshells from there on out. It was supposedly the dust behind the tv, silly me!