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Emotional Conversations

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$14.2 $20 In stock

Category: Card Game

Discussions to keep love true

Relationships usually go wrong not because we are ‘bored’ or ‘with the wrong person’ but because we have failed to make ourselves understood and haven’t managed to properly understand our partner. Occasionally, relationships need to be restarted. These cards reopen channels of emotional communication that have, very understandably, become clogged up over time.

The questions, and the supporting micro-essays, invite candour, confession and radical openness. While using them, it is centrally important to maintain an atmosphere of extreme kindness and calm, without any hint of moralising or bitterness.

We often give up on each other too soon. Relationships that, with the right assistance, might have been good enough (or even more than that) come unstuck because we don’t work out how to speak about, and listen to, what is really on our minds. This box is a tool with which to save love.

20 cards | 114mm x 157mm 

Customer Reviews (5.0 / 5 · 5 reviews)

Penelope Q. ★★★★★

We pulled these out on a rainy Sunday and ended up talking for three hours straight. The questions go deeper than the usual date-night card deck, and I learned things about my wife I'd somehow never asked in nine years.

Richard C. ★★★★★

My partner and I played through the whole deck on a rainy Saturday and ended up talking for three hours about stuff we'd never said out loud. The cards that ask about being understood hit harder than I expected. Didn't realize how much we'd been talking past each other until we weren't.

Sofia L. ★★★★★

Some of these cards ask questions I'd never have thought to bring up on my own, and that's exactly why they work. My partner and I ended up talking for two hours on a random Tuesday instead of watching TV.