Can I speak up? My H went thru the silent stage a few years ago. He had nothing to say to me, and if we were together we sat in silence filled with tension. I couldn't even ask if the sky was blue! That would have been my fault too.
As he continues to get out of the fog the conversation returns. On rare ocassion we can even have some R talk, but mostly he still clams up about 'us'.
I still move forward with my life while leaving room for H to come along. We used to be on the same trail side by side, then H took a hard left, more recently we're moving more parallel but not on the same trail. Of course this is just how I see my life, my perspective.
One thing that my H did that may be unusual is that there was a short time that H tried hard to 'leave' my family, but that didn't last long and he did a 180 to insert himself in the middle of my family and he's as much or more connected than I am with them!
Good luck waiting out the silent stage, time and patience are your friends.
Live your life while you are still living. Riding the trail less traveled.
