SCRIPT CHECK · 60 SECONDS
Five quick questions show how often it appears, how believable it feels, and what it makes you avoid. You’ll get one private next step.
This is not a diagnosis and there is no pass or fail. It measures the current frequency, credibility, and behavioral cost of “My best friend cried when I told her about the engagement”, including the private rule underneath it: If she cried instead of cheering, the tears must be the honest reaction and everything she's said since must be the performance — so you keep auditing her words against that one wet-eyed moment instead of taking either at face value.
QUIET
“My best friend cried when I told her about the engagement” appears, but it rarely gets the final say. Keep this line available for higher-pressure moments: “A quiet cry at a sink is one moment, not her whole verdict on my engagement.”
PRESENT
“My best friend cried when I told her about the engagement” wins some small decisions before you catch it. Your useful interruption is: “She can be adjusting to a change in us without disapproving of him.”
ACTIVE
“My best friend cried when I told her about the engagement” is shaping action often enough to deserve a deliberate counterexample. Start privately and concretely: Tonight, privately list three reasons she might have teared up that have nothing to do with your fiancé, and keep the list for yourself.
DOMINANT
Right now, “My best friend cried when I told her about the engagement” is steering many of the moments you measured. That is a pattern reading, not a diagnosis or character verdict. Begin with one reversible receipt: Tonight, privately list three reasons she might have teared up that have nothing to do with your fiancé, and keep the list for yourself.