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Is silent treatment the same as ghosting?
While regular silent treatment in a relationship may mean suffering the partner’s cold, icy silence for a couple of hours to several days or even to a few weeks, ghosting means that a person completely and suddenly stops communicating and vanishes from the relationship – and out of the shared life.
What is the difference between ghosting and gaslighting?
First there’s ghosting, when someone you’re talking to suddenly dips out without explanation—literally, no word. The second is gaslighting, a very real form of emotional abuse.
What is the difference between no contact and the silent treatment?
No contact is you setting a boundary to regain control in your life. This is not abusive. Silent treatment from the narcissist is meant for you to “learn a lesson” and realize how wrong you were to the narcissist.
What’s the difference between ghosting and no contact?
“No contact” implies an understanding, an agreement. “We will not reach out to each other.” “Ghosting” is ending the relationship by ending all communication without any explanation.
What is the difference between the silent treatment and ghosting?
Although the silent treatment and ghosting seem very similar in nature, they have some discrepancies. Each of these terms are important to note if you’re dealing with a narcissist – especially if you want out of the relationship. The silent treatment is a tactic that narcissists will use to manipulate, control, and/or punish you.
What is the difference between the silent treatment and discard?
Unlike the silent treatment discard is a post tactic for supply. The narcissist counts on post, or mental supply by making sure (no closure) can take place, meaning no explanation, ooor fault blaming, ooor (Deflection); which sets up affective hovering in the future. Discard differs in that it’s done at a distance.
No contact is more about protecting yourself so that you can be safe and heal after going through an abusive, toxic relationship. The silent treatment is passive-aggressive and abusive, while no contact is really less about the narcissist and more about you.
What is the narcissist’s point around no contact & ghosting?
Yep, the narc’s point around No Contact, the silent treatment & ghosting all being about silence is 100\% correct. But what lies beyond this gross over-simplification? Let’s drill down. Both the silent treatment and ghosting relate to withholding information to exercise power and control over you.