Indifference isn’t always coldness. Sometimes it’s just being done.

Sometimes not caring is what arrives at the end of caring a great deal. You argued, explained, hoped and tried, and then one day the pull is simply gone. That can feel alarming, because from outside it resembles the coldness you promised yourself you would never have, when really it is a long effort finishing.

Check whether the quiet is peace or avoidance, since the two look alike. If nothing is left that you want to say, you are allowed to stop saying it. Let the silence be an ending and not a tactic.