Choose a check-in answer size

Agree whether today’s check-in needs one word, a sentence, or a longer conversation.

Try this

  1. Offer answer sizes before asking the personal question, so a short reply is an agreed format rather than an apparent refusal.
  2. Answer at the chosen size yourself if you are both participating. Leave follow-up questions for a separate invitation.

A worked example

“I can manage one sentence tonight. Could that be enough for today?”

An invented example to adapt, not a real exchange or a script you have to follow.

Before you leave it here

Do not turn a short answer into an invitation to demand the missing details.

This is a voluntary planning exercise. Keep your notes private, adapt the language, and leave any question unanswered. It does not require Ourling or a purchase.

Ourling’s library uses AI-assisted original writing. These are practical exercises, not clinical advice or promises about relationship outcomes. Suggest a correction or a missing situation.