The Silent Treatment is an abuse tactic uses to withhold a feeling of safety or closure with a victim. A victim detaching from an Abuser for safety after clearly disclosing the terms of why or why not the problem person makes them uncomfortable is not the same thing as someone who is violent or who lies to and about another one who actively engaged in Parental Alienation tactics, textbook and Willful Social Abuse or Willful Neglect of another withholding apology, validation of their abuse target as a person with rights, or who did intentional harm refusing things like time sensitive production of documents or to allow progress to be made ensuring healthy and appropriate civic behavior is engaged. A Silent Treatment is a Military Intelligence Psyche Ops tactic to induce neural discomfort in targets. Only when the mark of someone cruel and sadistic enough to pull such a stunt realizes they are being willfully ignored and that ignoring someone who you harmed who seeks to understand why or to find closure in a feeling of safety provided by settled discord can move on in life without feeling like someone from their past is bearing ill will or a grudge that is unnecessary. People do and say all kind of terrible things to one another in haste. Relationships that survive such foibles and grow allow free and open communication between all parties, noting honesty without tact is brutality. Brutality without Finesse is ABUSE. And Abuse itself traumatizes the Abuse Victim in ways that do not at all negatively impact the Abuser apart from what giving the Silent Treatment to others does to decay their EQ processing center by flooding themselves willfully with toxic neurochemicals produced by the Socially Dominating, caustic behavior.