We Never Liked Them Anyway Kit

Somebody you love just had their world rearranged, and "let me know if you need anything" isn't going to cut it. They're not calling you at 11pm to ask for help. They can barely decide what to eat. What actually helps is somebody deciding for them, gently, and then showing up with lemons.

This is the kit for that. One night you plan for them (about three hours, five or six people, a pitcher of lemonade, spiked or not), plus four weeks of not disappearing afterward, which is the part everyone else skips and the part that actually matters.

Inside, 29 pages covering:

• Who to invite, and just as important, who to leave off the list
• Group agreements to read aloud that keep the whole night from going sideways
• A full three-hour rundown, arrival to closing
• The lemonade recipe itself, built to double as an icebreaker, with notes on spiking it
• Conversation prompts pulled straight from Making Lemonade
• Three toast scripts, so nobody has to be clever on the spot
• A letting-go ritual for the end of the night that isn't a bonfire
• The Point Person system: one friend, one month, ten minutes a week
• A full four-week check-in calendar, messages ready to copy and send
• What to say, what not to say, and how to hold the no-contact line together
• Copy-paste invitations, for the guests and for the friend the night is for

It scales down too. No gathering, no problem: the Point Person page and the four-week calendar work completely on their own, and every conversation page here holds up just as well across a kitchen table for two.

This isn't therapy and it doesn't pretend to be. If your friend is genuinely afraid, or leaving felt dangerous rather than just painful, the kit says so plainly and points you toward real help instead. For everything short of that, this is what you hand a friend group so nobody has to figure out, alone, how to actually show up.