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For context, my younger brother 20 years old, stopped talking to me recently. We had an argument and I said some things I didn't mean but I tried to reach out to him a few days afterwards after the situation had cooled down to sort things out and he pushed me away. i feel really bad about the things I said but I know I can't take them back. Not sure what I did to deserve this level of silent treatment, I really do love him but it doesn't look like his interested in talking things through so I don't know what to do or how to act. Like he literally pretends I'm not there and that I'm thin air that he has to navigate around, it's hurtful. Is there any hope?
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2 mo
It's been a month since my brother ignored me, this is the first time this has ever happened and I'm genuinely in shock
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I agree with what GenericName said — clearly your outburst was bad enough to warrant the silent treatment. The situation then becomes: why did the argument have to be so blown up? Is it because you’ve kept your feelings bottled up about something up until the point that you couldn’t hold it in anymore, so when you finally spoke up it was more explosive than intended? Or could it have been a thing to where you’re fed up with telling him the same thing, he’s unresponsive and it caused an argument?
Whatever the case may be, I’d definitely be using this time while he’s not talking to me to reflect. He most likely won’t ignore you forever, but in the meantime just try not to hone in on that too much. Focus on other family members and just match his energy for now. I’d also be asking myself how warranted a lengthy silent treatment is. Mainly because as stranger, I don’t know the context to the argument but I’m sure it didn’t just come out of thin air, these are feelings about something that’s been building up for you. Maybe your delivery wasn’t the best but it doesn’t necessarily mean the intended message wasn’t valid. I mean he could be totally in the wrong for all we know but he’s leveraging your argument to make you feel like shit and none of the issue you had justifiably not registering for him.
In any case, give it some time, give it all some thought, and then when he’s more open to talking, try having a better conversation. You can apologize for your part in how things went down, but also try getting across how you feel in a less emotional way. I’d also advise that if you were bottling your feelings before, don’t do it again, otherwise this’ll be the result every time and nothing gets fixed.
Crazy to see I wrote a long, thought out response only for you to completely ignore it. Yet you want help and opinions.
Time usually heals fights. You could write him a letter and leave it for him. And you can say that what you said was said in anger and you wish that you could take angry words back.
Leave him alone after you deliver the letter and hope he'll speak to you in time. Good luck.
"Not sure what I did to deserve this level of silent treatment". "I said some things I didn't mean", "I said some things I didn't mean". it seems like what you said was bad enough for you to deserve the silent treatment.