Why They Go Silent (It's NOT The Silent Treatment)

Have you ever asked your partner a simple question mid-argument, only to be met with dead silence and an empty stare? Or maybe you're the one whose throat physically closes when tensions rise, leaving you trapped behind your own teeth. 😶 Before you brand it as toxic stonewalling or cold-hearted malice, hit pause. What looks like cold stubbornness on the outside is almost always a primitive, full-body emergency brake: The Freeze Response . In this eye-opening episode, we peel back the layers of psychological warfare and neurobiology to explore why conflict causes some minds to...