Stonewalling: When Silence Isn’t a Boundary

  Stonewalling: When Silence Isn’t a Boundary — It’s an Abandonment Loop Stonewalling isn’t just “quiet.”It isn’t tension avoidance.It isn’t a break.It’s the erasure of shared relational reality — and it shows up in two distinct patterns that matter deeply in trauma-shaped attachments. What People Usually Mean by Stonewalling Clinically, stonewalling is described as: withdrawing […]