cyber quarrel

My husband and I always give each other the silent treatment after fighting—neither of us wants to speak first, and the atmosphere gets so stiff it could freeze. We had another argument that day, and after holding it in for ages without a word, I simply pulled up my real-time digital human, set it to a British female accent, and "unleashed" on him: "Darling, that's bollocks and you know it!" He froze for three seconds, then suddenly burst out laughing, immediately opening his own digital human—firing back in a rough Texas drawl. The anger that had been bottled up inside us was fully released along with the digital humans' "bickering," and we made up as we "argued." Technology didn’t solve our problem for us, but this fun way broke the stalemate of the silent treatment in an instant—stress-relieving and heartwarming.