What does it do to you internally?

How do you handle it and recover from it?

***. This could be triggering for DTD ***


My husband is a master of the silent treatment with disdainful, aggravated you irritate the crap out of me look on his face.

I immediately turn into a very small and young scared part me and freeze.

Inside, I’m so angry and just frozen because I feel like anything I try to say or do would only make it worse.

I know I should comfort that part of me and stand up for her but I can’t. I don’t have the ability and I’m too afraid to.

I feel pretty beat up and crushed when it happens. I don’t want to just be a victim anymore with no voice.

A part of me, the 12yo, knows he’s just a bully and is taking great pleasure in what he’s doing, but I can’t seem to step in for the little one who is so crushed.

Just curious if anyone else deals with this.