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 cofounder went quiet in the car, so we're over”, including the private rule underneath it: If he stops narrating out loud, the partnership has already ended in private, and my job is to start preparing for the wreckage before he says anything, so I'm never caught off guard by news I only imagined he was about to deliver.
QUIET
“My cofounder went quiet in the car, so we're over” appears, but it rarely gets the final say. Keep this line available for higher-pressure moments: “Forty quiet minutes on the highway is forty quiet minutes, not a dissolution notice.”
PRESENT
“My cofounder went quiet in the car, so we're over” wins some small decisions before you catch it. Your useful interruption is: “He's decompressing from the pitch. I'm the one writing the eulogy.”
ACTIVE
“My cofounder went quiet in the car, so we're over” is shaping action often enough to deserve a deliberate counterexample. Start privately and concretely: Scroll your message thread with him and count how many overnight silences this month were followed by an ordinary next day instead of an ending.
DOMINANT
Right now, “My cofounder went quiet in the car, so we're over” is steering many of the moments you measured. That is a pattern reading, not a diagnosis or character verdict. Begin with one reversible receipt: Scroll your message thread with him and count how many overnight silences this month were followed by an ordinary next day instead of an ending.