Difficult Conversations

Conversation Starters

Three powerful questions to open up the topic

Difficult Conversations

Conversation Starters


What conversation have you been putting off — not because it doesn't matter, but because you're more afraid of what might happen if you actually have it?


Think about the last argument that went nowhere. What were you fighting about on the surface — and what were you really fighting about underneath?


If you could say the one thing you're most afraid to say to the person you most need to say it to — and know the relationship would survive it — what would you say?

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