Chelli Pumphrey

When someone you love goes quiet on purpose, your nervous system registers it the same way it registers a slammed door or a raised hand. Not metaphorically. Actually. I've sat with enough women in my office describing this exact moment, the stomach drop, the replaying of every word they said before the silence started to know it's not an overreaction. It's a threat response. And it's working exactly the way it's supposed to.

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