...after an argument? Over the last few years, I've dated and been close friends with a woman who shuts down when an argument gets too hard for her to handle and she ignores every possible way of communicating. I'm the complete opposite when it comes to arguing and want to hash it all out immediately, come to an understanding of each other's feelings and get to the bottom of who was wrong so that they can recognize that and make things right. Much of the time, what happens is that it drives me crazy (possibly the reason for her doing it) and I end up sending too many messages to the point that she gets pissed and accuses me of harassment or whatever else, even though it was her tactics that caused it in the first place. So how do you deal with a person like this and still retain your own power? I feel that playing by her game forces me to be under her control and I lose whatever ground I'm on.