PATTERN
Swapping the real sentence for a smaller one
What it is
You open your mouth with the real sentence loaded and swap it on the way through your teeth for a smaller one that will not require anything of either of you.
How it affects your life
It has happened three times this spring. You get as far as something like "I think I need to know what the actual plan is", he answers about the roof, and you say yeah, the roof. The vagueness is doing work. You say something with a door in it rather than "can we talk about something", he takes the door, and you are left annoyed with him for taking a door you built, held open and pointed at.
Evidence
Latest 5 of 13
“Which is true, and is also a sentence with no letter in it, no Feldman year in it, and nothing he would have to answer.”
Reinforced later
Read the entry →“the full attention was so much more than I had braced for that I said: it can wait until the weekend”
Reinforced later
Read the entry →“Got as far as: there is something I want to tell you and it is not a big thing but it is a thing.”
Reinforced later
Read the entry →“He crossed the entire width of how our family talks to ask me a direct question and I gave him two syllables and a name”
Reinforced later
Read the entry →“I said yeah Dad. And he said good. And handed the phone back to Mum.”
Reinforced later
Read the entry →
These do nothing here. On your own map this card is yours to reword, hide or delete, and every quote opens the entry it came from.