Have you ever tried to resolve fights in your relationship to your best capability, but your partner always shuts you out? The desire to resolve conflict in a relationship is healthy.
Repairing a rupture maintains trust and allows a couple to feel good moving forward. However, when one partner shuts down or withdraws, he or she is defending against intense emotion.
Withdrawing is a defense mechanism, and although defense mechanisms are necessary, universal, and human, when ignited, they render a person less capable of resolving conflict.
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