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Relationships prompts

Dating, difficult conversations, repair. The human stuff, handled like an adult.

• life Plan a Difficult Conversation With a Family Member

  Plan the difficult conversation you have been putting off, including how to start it.

• self Reframe a Friendship That Has Changed

  Make sense of a friendship that has changed without deciding it is over or broken.

• life Plan Moving In Together for the First Time

  Get a practical checklist for moving in together that covers the conversations most people skip.

• life Decide How to Handle a Difficult Conversation With a Parent or Sibling

  Work out how to have the family conversation without making it worse than it needs to be.

• self Decide Whether to Address a Recurring Pattern in a Close Relationship

  Work out whether to say the thing you keep not saying.

• self Translate a Long-Running Disagreement Into What It Is Actually About

  Find out what the disagreement is really about before you have it the same way again.

• life Translate the Unspoken Dynamic in a Friendship That Has Shifted

  Find out what has actually changed in a friendship that has quietly drifted or cooled.

• life Compare Two Approaches to Dealing With a Conflict With a Family Member

  Find the approach to a family conflict that is most likely to resolve something rather than escalate it.

• life Summarise the Relationships That Actually Support Your Life

  Map the relationships in your life that actually support you versus the ones you maintain by habit.

• self Decide How to Respond to a Difficult Person Without Making It Worse

  Work out how to handle a difficult person without making it worse.

• life Decide How Much of Your History to Share With Someone New

  Work out how much of your history to share with someone new and when.

• self Decide Whether to Forgive Someone Who Has Not Apologised

  Think clearly about whether to forgive someone who will not apologise.

• life Explain Why a Relationship in Your Life Feels Different Than It Did

  Understand why a relationship that used to feel close now feels different.

• life Resolve a Long-Running Disagreement

  End the argument that keeps coming back by finding what it is actually about.

• self Set a Boundary in a Relationship That Matters to You

  Have the conversation that makes the thing you keep tolerating actually stop.

• life Prepare for a Difficult Conversation With a Family Member

  Go into the hard family conversation with a plan instead of good intentions.

• life Decide Which Relationship to Invest in More This Year

  Identify the one relationship to invest in deliberately this year rather than leaving all of them to drift.

• life Critique Your Social Circle for Quiet Drift

  Look clearly at your social life before the drift becomes permanent.

• life Compare Two Approaches to Resolving a Recurring Tension With Someone

  Compare addressing the recurring tension directly versus managing around it, for this specific situation.

• self Explain Your Emotional Reaction to Someone Without Making It About Blame

  Say how you feel without turning it into an argument.

• life Plan a Difficult Conversation About Money in a Relationship

  Have the money conversation before it becomes the money argument.

• life Plan a Difficult Conversation Without Rehearsing a Script

  Prepare for the difficult conversation so you go in knowing what you actually need to say.

• life Plan a Difficult Conversation You Have Been Avoiding

  Plan the conversation you keep meaning to have before it becomes the thing you never said.

• life Decide Whether to Forgive Someone Who Has Not Apologised

  Work through whether forgiveness is for you or for them, and what it would actually require.

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