Product Description
The Cost of Quiet: How to Have the Hard Conversations That Create Secure, Lasting Love
Author: Colette Jane Fehr
Format: Paperback
An empowering, healing guide that reveals the true cost of avoidant behaviour 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.
‘I wish I had spoken up sooner.’
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 behaviour – 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 The Cost of Quiet, licensed marriage and family therapist Colette Jane Fehr shines a light on the epidemic of avoidant behaviour and how to overcome it. Drawing from the latest attachment science and evidence-based therapies she’s used to repair the bond between hundreds of couples, Fehr gives us the tools to approach those we love with openness, honesty and vulnerability.
The ultimate goal: a securely attached relationship that engages with conflict productively, and the confidence that comes from speaking up and being heard – because a good relationship is worth fighting for.
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