You don’t need a plan or a script tonight, just a few honest sentences you can say out loud, right when it counts.
“No is a complete sentence, even with people you love.”
“Saying no to someone else can be a way of taking care of them too.”
“You get to change your mind about what you're okay with.”
Practicing no out loud with someone safe is what makes it possible to say for real later.
In their story, a character practices saying no, and hearing no, and finds out that a boundary can be a way of caring for a relationship, not a threat to it.
It ends with the character standing a little more steadily in themselves, sure of where they end and someone else begins.
Read more: Stories and Social Skills: Rehearsing Relationships on the Page
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