If your partner gives you silent treatments, make them your ex today. ASAP. That isn’t healthy at all.

If you have to message them first at all times to clear things up or mend things or stir up conversation because they are capable of ignoring you to teach you a lesson or just out of pure stubbornness. Leave them alone please for your own sake. It’s a passive form of toxicity.

And this isn’t the “we just had an argument and I need a moment to cool down” type silent treatment. I mean they legit will not SPEAK to you for over a day/week etc due to being angry at you, won’t check up on you, won’t try even let you know that they need space. Nothing.

The type of silent treatment where you question whether you’re still together, what they’re doing, if they even still love you or if they will ever come back or if it’s over for good this time. Those silent treatments. The ones with no reassurance or certainty.