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Redbird ([personal profile] redbird) wrote in [community profile] agonyaunt 2022-08-17 12:42 pm (UTC)

Oy vey!

LW: "He's giving me the silent treatment."

Annie: "You can fix this by talking to him enough."

She's correct that the silent treatment is inappropriate, because it's never appropriate. From my high school math: formally, the statement "P implies Q" is true whenever Q is a true statement, including things like "it's raining, therefore my mother was born in Germany" or "some dowagers are thistles, therefore 2+2=4." Or, in this case, "the LW did nothing wrong, therefore her husband shouldn't be giving her the silent treatment."

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