How To Prevent Ghosting And Domestic Violence With Healthy Communication

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JAKARTA - Mental health plays an important role in maintaining the quality of interpersonal relations, including in household life.

The inability to manage emotions and convey feelings in a healthy way can trigger various problems in relationships, such as ghosting and domestic violence (KDRT).

Clinical psychologistpan Indira Andani, M.Psi, explained the steps that could be taken to prevent sudden disappearance behavior without news or ghosting and domestic violence.

According toction, ghosting refers to the sudden act of ending communication without giving an explanation to a partner. In the household context, this term is also used to describe a person who leaves his partner for no apparent reason.

This highlights that ghosting often arises due to a lack of healthy communication skills and individual inability to deal with conflict. From a psychological perspective, individuals who tend to ghosting usually have difficulty building emotional intimacy and prefer to avoid problems rather than deal with them directly.

When this behavior appears in the household, it reflects an unhealthy pattern of relationship as well as a lack of communication and emotional maturity between partners.

"Couplers who are not used to solving problems in a healthy way tend to close themselves (stonewalling) or disappear to avoid tensions," explainedphetamine.

He also added that some people feel that they are not ready to face difficult conversations, especially in big decisions such as divorce, so they prefer to cut communication without providing explanations.

dividedness emphasizes that healthy communication skills reflect a person's emotional maturity. Emotionally immature people tend to avoid responsibility in relationships, including in resolving conflicts or ending relationships well.

In addition, social and cultural factors also affect individual tendencies in conveying the desire to separate. Some individuals choose to avoid direct confrontation due to pressure from certain environments or social norms.

This also reminds that communication problems in relationships can lead to domestic violence. The inequality of power in the household, which often benefits men, can make women find it difficult to voice their opinions openly, which in the end can increase the risk of violence.

To prevent ghosting and domestic violence, it is important for couples to build open and healthy communication from the start of the relationship.

"Couples need to build open communication, learn to manage conflicts in a healthy way, and have emotional readiness before deciding to get married," said koordinator.

He also proposed applying the principles of HEALTH in relationships, which include Awareness, Evaluation, Facing Problems, Affirmation, and Establishing Limits. This principle aims to build a strong and balanced foundation of relations.

Open and assertive communication is needed so that partners can understand each other, considering that each individual has emotional needs such as desire to be respected, supported, and given room to develop.

According toLA, unhealthy communication patterns, such as avoiding conflict or using violence as a form of control, can have a negative impact on relationships in the long term. Therefore, recognizing a partner's communication pattern from an early age is an important step in building healthy relationships.

Making fair agreements, providing mutual support in marriage, and setting clear personal boundaries can help reduce the risk of violence in relationships.

"Implementing the principle of HEALTH in relationships will help couples build a more stable, equivalent, and free household from a pattern of harmful relationships," saidTEN.

In addition, he emphasized that more stringent psychological interventions and legal policies are also needed in efforts to prevent domestic violence.

"Education on healthy relations, which is based on good equality and communication, not control and dominance, must continue to be encouraged," he concluded.