Quiet Cracking: The Fractures We Don’t Hear

Not all breaking is loud. In workplaces, people keep showing up, but their spark fades. An ambitious employee stops speaking up. A once-vocal colleague goes quiet. This isn’t quitting — it’s cracking.

Gallup reports 59% of employees are disengaged, costing trillions. The same happens in relationships and families: silence replaces connection, neglect replaces recognition. Psychologists call it learned helplessness — the sense that effort no longer matters.

Healing doesn’t require grand gestures. It begins with micro-moves: noticing effort, checking in, and listening before silence spreads into shattering. Like glass, people don’t break at once. They crack quietly first.

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