The Cost of Quiet - How to Have the Hard Conversations That Create Secure, Lasting Love

An empowering, healing guide that reveals the true cost of avoidant behavior in a relationship--disconnection, disengagement, and divorce--and shows how we can instead learn to speak up and start connecting with the ones we love most. People think relationships fail because of deal breakers like infidelity, finances, or parenting problems. But the real culprit is often much less dramatic: emotional disconnection after years of staying silent and avoiding conflict. We’re afraid to say what we need because we worry about what will come next. Avoidant behavior--the need to “keep the peace” rather than dealing with conflict head on--isn’t our fault. Our ingrained attachment wiring urges us to sidestep day-to-day disputes and brush lingering problems under the rug. But silence is a losing proposition in the long term, leading us to self-abandon and essentially “quiet quit” our relationships. We can make another choice. In

Product details

• Authors: Colette Jane Fehr
• Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 03.02.2026
• EAN: 9780593852743
• ISBN: 978-0-593-85274-3
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Partnership, sexuality; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Love & Romance, PSYCHOLOGY / Interpersonal Relations, SELF-HELP / Communication & Social Skills, Assertiveness, motivation & self-esteem, Dating, relationships, living together & marriage, Sociology: family & relationships, Social, group or collective psychology, Sociology: family, kinship and relationships