In my previous article, I explored the difficulty of finding the right words when our emotions take over during a conflict with someone important to us. We were then dealing with active conflict, the kind that explodes and hurts through an excess of words. Sometimes, after all those harsh, sometimes exaggerated, and often biting words, a silence settles in—one that is almost more daunting. Other times, silence arrives without any conflict having erupted out loud; it is then a