Mute
Your ability to stop responding, even when provoked. Not about listening, but choosing silence as a control.
Hilary Duff and Learning to Ask for What She Needs
Mute partially applies to how Hilary Duff had been silencing herself rather than speaking up about her needs. However, the real growth happened when she unmuted herself and started communicating clearly. Her initial approach of staying quiet and expecting Matthew to guess what was wrong was a form of muting that wasn't serving their relationship.