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Silent treatment

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connie26 · 01/09/2023 04:10

DH is giving DD 15 the silent treatment because he found out she had tried vapes - he found two in the house (ones that I had taken off her months ago and forgot to throw out - could kick myself). She doesn't vape anymore and I've explained this to him. She's tried to apologise and bought him some chocolate but he just grunted. He's now been moody since last Sunday and although DD is taking it in her stride, I'm worried it will start to affect her.
He's prone to moodiness when things don't go well and there are other things worrying him at the moment which adds to it all but I am at the end of my tether with him. I've had 30 years of this shit on and off. When I try to talk to him, he'll often turn it into 'oh, it's my fault is it' and shut himself off again.
I'm going to lose it with him very soon.

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Thelonelygiraffe · 03/09/2023 09:03

Your poor dd - buying her dad chocolate to appease him and try to buy him out of a mood. This is not something you want her learning to do in her relationships!

I'm so glad your h has gone. There is advice here for the next steps: www.citizensadvice.org.uk/family/how-to-separate1/getting-a-divorce-or-dissolution/

Good luck. Keep posting on here.

Your h clearly hasn't matured since being a toddler, and now uses the silent treatment to punish you, keep you in line, make you walk on eggshells. It is abusive - see www.domesticshelters.org/articles/identifying-abuse/the-silent-treatment-an-abuser-s-controlling-tactic

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