I've gotten better with time but my logic is when I'm mad I think things I'd never regularly say to someone I love. I have my moon square mars and uranus. My emotions are quick and erratic but I do have Mercury in Cancer. I don't like hurting peoples feelings. I'd rather sit and talk when I'm not at level crazy 100.

My husband with Aries moon and Mercury talks and acts without thinking. Then I feel bad and then he feels like shit because he's a Pisces after all. LOL

But I remember early on my husband telling me he'd rather we fight and let it out than for me to just sit there not communicating. LOL Aries. LOL

He gets over it in 2 seconds. I don't.

I wish I could do it for an hour, but w/ a Gemini Moon, it's not a reality! I just say what's bothering me, what a concept. My husband doesn't get angry very often, but if he's really mad he'll go to the bedroom and close the door for a short while.

I had an aunt who would do that to her husband. I think I remembered her telling us that she wasn't talking to her husband. It would go on for days. I was young, maybe 10, but remembered that.

I had a boyfriend in my teen years that would do that. I just remember it now. He'd go days without barely a word. I remember how awful it was. Just freezing you out. I'm glad that one didn't work out!

Big Cap used to do this. He hasn't in years. He learned it at home.

It drove him crazy that he wasn't getting through to me (Leo Sun and Mars IS explosive but also very stubborn), so he used it as a control tactic.

Scorpio rising, Pisces Mars, Cap Sun...be a mind reader and sense that I'm POd at you about whatever.

Uh, no. I don't get or like that shit. I was raised by Gemini Moons. That saved them from pulling the silent treatment BS - they're Scorpio and Pisces.

They told me never to go to bed angry. That stayed with me.

Two of my three kids have Pisces Mars. I have to educate them on the mind reading crap. Other than that, they don't do the silent thing either. Everything spills out with brutal honesty. They all have lots of Sag.

I don't know that I would call it the "silent treatment" as it applies to me - I will speak when asked a question.  Like others have mentioned, I need time to collect my thoughts, reflect on why I'm angry and then put the pieces together into a package that will make sense when I try to explain it.  

Being silent when upset has always made sense to me - you make it clear that something is bothering you while eliminating the possibility of saying something that you may later regret.

Reminds me a little of the quote "No message is a message."

Funny. I never hear of "the silent treatment" anymore.

Has something replaced it?