Walking away without a word is really two different behaviors: a short break when your body is overwhelmed, which the research broadly supports, and chronic silent withdrawal, which a meta-analysis of 74 studies links to unhappier relationships
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The science distinguishes between a tactical pause when emotions run high—which helps—and stonewalling through silence, which corrodes intimacy.