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Have you ever been in a relationship where every time you have a conflict,

even a small one, the other person just shuts down and doesn't wanna talk?

How do you deal with that?

That's what I'm talking about today.

I'm Dr. Tracy Marks, a psychiatrist, and I make mental health education and self -improvement videos.

Today's video is based on a viewer question from Boss Kitty, and she said, I'm here for the advice.

My boyfriend and I just started, four months, and he doesn't know how to express himself emotionally or have a conversation concerning our relationship.

Every time I tell him his absence to our talks affects me and we need to talk about it,

he blows up and gets angry and so on, which leads me to silence and soak in all my concerns.

It's difficult.

I also suffer with depression and I deal with it fine on my own.

Now I have to develop ways to deal with this and not show it in my face.

Please tell me how to deal with this.

Thank you.

Thank you Boss Kitty for this question.

There's a few things going on with this situation.

You have a boyfriend who doesn't wanna talk and it sounds like he doesn't wanna talk

when you talk about things like your relationship and then when you try and press him on it, he gets angry.

His anger makes you withdraw and silently deal with your pain.

The first thing you need to do is figure out is his lack of talking about the relationship

because he's not a good communicator or is it because he just doesn't want to talk about it every time you ask?

I'm assuming that you're not asking him every day, are we okay?

Because no one wants to be badgered about the state of the relationship

because the person on the receiving end can feel like they're always having to reassure you.

And some reassurance can work at first, but after a while, it gets old,

and he can get tired of always needing to build you up and make you feel secure.

If this is the case, the solution would be to find different ways to build yourself up and boost your self -confidence.

But I'm going to assume that that's not the issue here.

Another possibility is that your boyfriend is not a good communicator.

So if you start getting too deep with him, he may not know how to express his feelings very well.

If you keep trying to get him to tell you more about how he feels, he can get defensive and feel attacked

and then he can attack back with mean comments in response to having his vulnerabilities exposed.

How would you know if this was the case?

How much does he talk about other things?

How good is he at talking about how he feels about something?

It's one thing to be able to give an observation of a situation because then you can just list the facts,

but it goes to another level to talk about how a situation affects you emotionally and your opinions about it.

Some people aren't good at identifying how they feel about something

so they may relate a story without any secondary level of detail.

If that's how he communicates he's going to struggle when you're

when you start talking about your relationship

because your relationship isn't just a series of facts it's the abstract concept of your connectedness.

So one thing you can do in this situation is to

ask him more open -ended questions like how do you feel about that?

What are your thoughts about that?

Or how would you handle that?

Open -ended questions require more than a one -word answer

and the person who isn't good at communicating but is willing to communicate if you help will try and answer those questions.

You can get him in the mode of answering more open -ended questions with you

and then at some point it may get easier for him to answer more open -ended questions about your relationship.

Here's an example.

You You go to a barbecue together and you're on your way back home in the car and he says, I like that, that was nice.

You can say, what did you like about it most?

He says, I don't know, it was just good.

You know, it was a good time.

You don't wanna jump in and say, well what specifically was good?

I enjoyed it too, but you can't tell me what you liked about it?

That's the quickest way to get him to shut down

and not wanna say anything because essentially you're pointing out the problem

that he probably knows he has at some level that he doesn't have a lot to say.

Instead give him an example of how you were wanting him to answer the question.

So he says it was a good time.

You say I really like the ribs

and I thought they did a good job of making everyone feel comfortable by having us play games and things.

These details may trigger him to to add his own details.

So he may say, yeah, those were some good ribs, and it was nice that they had stuff to do.

I don't like just sitting around at people's house and eating.

Do that several times.

You ask for details, he gives you a basic answer without details, you add your own details.

He may learn to anticipate what you're asking him

when you ask for something and he may get better at giving more details and having more to say.

If he gets more comfortable talking about generic things, he may then get better about talking about emotional things like your relationship.

So this is just a basic example and I'm making a lot of assumptions here about why he won't talk.

Of course, there are more specific reasons that have to do with things like

if you're pressuring him to do something that he doesn't wanna do, like be exclusive or move in or get married.

Those could be reasons why he doesn't wanna have the relationship talk.

Now, it's one thing not to talk because you're a poor communicator, but it's another thing entirely,

to be good at communicating but just choose not to.

One reason a person may do this is when they're giving you the silent treatment.

You usually see this in the setting of an argument or if you didn't do something that he wanted you to do.

The silent treatment is a passive -aggressive way of showing anger and punishing you.

The person refuses to talk to you.

Now this doesn't mean literally mean that he's ignoring you.

Instead you may get one one -word answers to questions.

The answers lack detail because he doesn't want to talk to you about it.

Also, he doesn't initiate any conversation until the period is over.

So the only time he talks is when he's answering a question from you and then it's super brief.

If you ask him, is everything okay?

He says, yeah, I'm fine.

When he's in this state, if you press for more details, he may lash out at you just to get you to shut up.

That's clearly different from the person who lashes out

because you're pressing him too hard to say things when he has nothing to say.

If your boyfriend is a silent treatment person, you have a bigger problem, I'm sorry to say,

because the silent treatment is a way for the person to punish you by shaming you or withholding validation from you.

An example of that may be that you have a fight about something, he gets mad and yells or says something mean.

That's not the silent treatment yet then you recognize your part in the fight and you apologize.

He knows you want to either hear him apologize or tell you it's okay and then everything will be alright,

but he purposely withholds that assurance so that you can go a while feeling uncomfortable and maybe insecure about the relationship.

You're naturally going to worry about how long he's going to be angry at you.

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So he He then withdraws and doesn't talk for a while, leaving you to fret about the state of the relationship.

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How do you handle this?

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Well, you can't pull him out of the silence.

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If he's using the silence to punish you, he's not gonna stop until he's satisfied that you've been shamed enough

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or that he's extracted enough pain from you or taught you the lesson that he's trying to teach you.

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So I think the best thing that you can do is ignore him when he's doing this.

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Step away from the situation and get your composure.

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This also gives him a chance to cool down if he's angry.

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Some people who do this need the mental space to work through their emotions on their own.

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And there's nothing wrong with needing some distance when you're hurting or angry.

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The passive aggressive part of this is when he doesn't acknowledge

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that he's responding to hurt and he gives the appearance that everything is fine even though he's acting like you don't exist.

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Then, while you're away from the situation, do things to take care of yourself emotionally.

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That is, do things that soothe you.

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This could be talking to a friend, or going for a walk, or watching a movie.

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If you appear unfazed by his silence,

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chances are he'll break the silence sooner than he otherwise would because it's not having the desired effect.

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Then, when he comes out of the silence, that's when you address whatever issue you were needing to discuss.

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You're not gonna get very far by calling him out on the silent treatment

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because he can just act like he doesn't know what you're talking about.

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And that's the beauty of passive aggression.

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Passive aggression gives the appearance of right doing

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or compliance with the covert negative behavior on the back end that's harder to see.

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So in this case, on the front end, he's saying everything's good

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but I don't know why you keep asking all these questions.

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I said no, but on the back end,

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he's only talking to you if you talk to him and giving bare minimum answers with little to no detail.

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knowing that you want more details and back and forth conversation with him.

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But here's the last point, and this is the reason I say that this is a bigger problem than just not talking.

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Even if you win by getting him to break the silence by ignoring him,

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you don't gain much because he'll find another way to get the same effect of punishing you when he's angry,

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and that's the issue that has to be addressed, the need to punish you.

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Some people believe that if you don't validate them in some way you deserve punishment and that punishment can take different forms.

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This kind of toxic behavior is hard to change but it can change if the person is ready to do some work.

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I did a video on 10 signs of a toxic relationship

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and I guess this would be number 11 but

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if you want to see more toxic behaviors and ways that you can deal with them you can watch that video here.

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If you watch my channel a lot, you'll see that this is a little different from my usual teaching about psychiatric illnesses.

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But mental health is broader than illnesses.

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Beneath the illness is still the need to relate to people.

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I really believe that relationships are the true currency because at the end of the day that's all we have left, relationships.

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And your individual mental well -being is a building block for how you function in the world.

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So that's how this all comes together, becoming the best that you can be has a trickle -down effect.

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So let's just keep pushing forward for the quest for self -improvement at every level.

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See you next time.

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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione

Questa lezione di conversazione si basa sul video “Poor Communicator or The Silent Treatment? How to Deal With It”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: relationship, detail, answer. Questo video contiene 144 frasi e 2030 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 11:25. Chi parla ha un ritmo naturale di circa 178 parole al minuto, vicino a una conversazione quotidiana. Il 89% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese, quindi il lessico è facile da seguire.

Vocaboli chiave di questo video

15 parole del video che vale la pena imparare, con pronuncia e significato:

Parola	Pronuncia	Significato
silence sostantivo	/ˈsaɪ̯ləns/	silenzio
silent aggettivo	/ˈsaɪ̯lənt/	silenzioso
punish verbo	/ˈpʌnɪʃ/	punire, castigare
communicate verbo	/kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/	comunicare, informare
passive aggettivo	/ˈpæs.ɪv/	passivo
ignore verbo	/ɪɡˈnɔː/	ignorare
illness sostantivo	/ˈɪl.nəs/	malattia
toxic aggettivo	/ˈtɒk.sɪk/	tossico
anger sostantivo	/ˈæŋɡə/	ira, rabbia
punishment sostantivo	/ˈpʌnɪʃmənt/	punizione, pena
aggressive aggettivo	/əˈɡɹɛs.ɪv/	aggressivo
relate verbo	/ɹɪˈleɪt/	riferire
apologize verbo	/əˈpɑləˌd͡ʒaɪz/	scusarsi
withdraw verbo	/wɪðˈdɹɔ/	ritirare, tirarsi indietro
aggression sostantivo	/əˈɡɹɛʃən/	aggressione

I phrasal verb che sentirai

Parola	Pronuncia	Significato
shut down verbo		spegnere
blow up verbo		saltare in aria, esplodere
figure out verbo		scoprire, rendersi conto
point out verbo		additare
shut up	/ʃʌt ʌp/	chiudi la bocca, stai zitto

Frasi da ripetere

Frasi brevi e complete del video che puoi riutilizzare nella conversazione di tutti i giorni:

How do you deal with that?
How would you know if this was the case?
What are your thoughts about that?
You don't wanna jump in and say, well what specifically was good?
If you ask him, is everything okay?

La grammatica di questo video

Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:

Struttura	Nel video
Frasi condizionali if + frase, will/would + verbo — una condizione e il suo risultato	if you help will try
Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fa	is based · be badgered · you've been shamed
Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso	Have you ever been · you've been shamed · have left
Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosa	person who isn · person who lashes · people who do

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

Chi parla usa 64 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come doesn't, you're, I'm. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.

I suoni “th”: withdraw /wɪðˈdɹɔ/, beneath /bɪˈniːθ/, withhold /wɪθˈhoʊld/, soothe /suːð/
I suoni “sh” e “zh”: punish /ˈpʌnɪʃ/, emotionally /ɪˈməʊʃənəli/, punishment /ˈpʌnɪʃmənt/, aggression /əˈɡɹɛʃən/, essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/
Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: communicate /kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/, emotionally /ɪˈməʊʃənəli/, apologize /əˈpɑləˌd͡ʒaɪz/, naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/

I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:

Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: silence /ˈsaɪ̯ləns/, silent /ˈsaɪ̯lənt/, punish /ˈpʌnɪʃ/, communicate /kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/, passive /ˈpæs.ɪv/
/æ/ — più aperta della “e”: passive /ˈpæs.ɪv/, anger /ˈæŋɡə/, naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, absence /ˈæb.s(ə)n̩s/, abstract /ˈæbˌstɹækt/

Come esercitarsi con questo video

Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
Inizia a velocità 0,75×, fai shadowing frase per frase e torna alla velocità normale quando diventa facile.
Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come silence, silent, punish.

Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?

Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.

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