How to Cope When Your Partner Hides and Retains to Protect Yourself

"I didn't change at that time because I still haven't figured out a lot of what was going on in my own life and why I had so many dysfunctions," she says. "There are ways to talk to somebody when they're in their coping strategy to help them feel safer enough to come back and express" If you can't get through to someone, it's very possible that they are waiting for the safe moment to come back.