Future faking
Big promises about the future, the trip, the keys, meeting his parents, with no follow-through on any of them.
What it looks like
- The weekend away he brought up three times, never with a date attached.
- “When you meet my mom” in week two, and no mention of it since.
- Talk of moving in together from someone who has not yet made a dinner reservation.
Why it is easy to miss
A promise feels like commitment, and your brain banks it the moment it is said. The plan does the emotional work of a plan long before anything is booked.
What it is not
Someone who plans, has to reschedule, and comes back with a new date. Movement is the difference. A promise that gets a first step is a plan.
What to do
- Treat a future plan as real when it has a date and a first step. Until then it is a nice sentence.
- Watch the gap between what was said and what happened, over weeks, not days.
- Say yes warmly, and leave the logistics with him.
How Bondary reads it
This is the gap her recap cards are built for: The Tape records what he said and when, Your Take records how you framed it, and the Commitment dimension tracks whether said ever became done. Once is a moment, twice is a signal, three times is a pattern.
She never tells you to leave. She shows you the pattern and the entries it came from, and the decision stays yours.
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