Therapists call it exposure: anxiety cannot focus on two catastrophes at once. Dating advice has somehow never exploited this properly.
Book a horror escape room. For one hour, “did that text sound weird” is comprehensively outcompeted by “the walls are moving”. Conversation becomes effortless — mostly screaming, which is technically communication. Field note: two of our researchers are now engaged; a third refuses to leave the escape room, describing it as “simpler”. Results, as ever, useless.