The Effects of Stonewalling on Emotional Safety

Stonewalling and avoiding are really difficult if anybody has any sort of abandonment issues, right? Mm hmm. I have for sure. And avoidance looks a little different than stonewalling because avoidance is not necessarily ignoring your partner the way stonewalling does. But it's definitely avoiding. Yeah. So when you're not honoring your partner's space and allowing them to process,. in a healthy way, but in their way that feels good... It's going to build walls. You can't allow emotional safety to build. That creates this pursuer, avoidant, dynamic that we see with a ton of couples.