340. You Tried to Talk… They Shut It Down. Now What?

If you finally worked up the courage to have a hard conversation and it blew up in your face, this episode is for you. Maybe they got defensive. Maybe they attacked. Maybe they avoided the whole thing and somehow you walked away feeling like you were the problem. In this follow-up to the episode on how silence kills relationships, Joe talks about what to do when the person you need to talk to refuses to engage in a healthy way. You’ll learn how to think about what is actually happening, what is and is not your responsibility, and how to move forward when the other person won’t meet you halfway. Sometimes the issue is not that you had the conversation wrong. Sometimes the issue is that the other person does not want to have it at all.