Original Advice
“DO: Ask for turn-taking and reflective listening.”
Demand Echoes, Not Monologues
Here’s the sting: you’ve been rewarding the loudest voice with your silence. When they monologue, you sprint to catch up, then forget you came with a mouth. Stop training them that access to you is limitless. Ask for turn-taking and reflective listening. Command the pause. Make them repeat what you said. If they can’t, the conversation ends. No encore.
Structure is your armor. Turn-taking punctures the glamour of performance and exposes presence. Reflective listening shows whether they meet you or just orbit themselves. It will feel mechanical. Good. Mechanics keep engines from exploding. You are not the audience; you are the beat. Set rules, not vibes. Count the exchanges. Measure respect. If they refuse, name it, and leave.
Cosmic Context
Mars crowns you first for a reason: you set the tempo, not them. Use initiation as regulation, not pursuit.
Action
──────Set a timer: two minutes each. Paraphrase before replying.
✨ You are allowed to end the call when the rules break. ✨