Telling a friend “that hurt” is more honest than going cold and hoping they figure it out.

Withdrawal is a message nobody can read. You know exactly why you have gone quiet, and from the outside it looks like a mood, a bad week, or nothing at all, so the hurt goes unanswered while the distance does its work. Going cold protects you from a short conversation by arranging a long problem.

Say the plain thing instead, as close to the event as you can manage: what happened and how it landed. Keep it to a sentence and leave out the case for why you are right. Most friends would rather have the sentence than the silence.