Across
- 4. Prioritizing work/duties over the importance of communicating with people
- 6. One who develops an idea that they have nothing worth saying
- 7. Avoiding a conversation out of discomfort and expressing ones feelings
- 9. Lack of acknowledging someones actions or words
- 11. Being taught that silence is better than speaking during their childhood
- 12. Thinking that others may use what they say against them
Down
- 1. A desire to punish others by not speaking with them
- 2. Not showing gratitude or giving recognition for others favors
- 3. Keeping others at a distance of not sharing your goals, desires, concerns, etc.
- 5. Communicating with sparing words
- 8. Not showing concern for others opinions and feelings
- 10. Unwilling to expend energy on a conversation with someone