If Nothing Changes
You keep blaming yourself. You buy more self-help books that tell you to try harder while the room works against you 24/7.
Relationships fade and you assume it’s your personality. The teenager retreats. The spouse becomes a roommate. Friends stop coming over because there’s nowhere to sit.
The cost is the life that doesn’t happen because connection never had a chance to find you.
When the Room Changes
Your teenager stops to hover at the kitchen counter. Twenty minutes of conversation happens without anyone planning it.
An old friend stays an hour instead of five minutes because there’s finally somewhere to sit.
You stop reaching for your phone because the room finally gives you something worth looking at.