The Quiet Dinner

≈ 4 min

Read the monologue below and decide: which single cognitive distortion does the speaker's reasoning show — or is there no distortion at all? Then pick the verbatim phrase that most clearly signals it. This is a logic puzzle. The speaker is a fictional, invented character; nothing here is clinical advice or diagnosis.

The scene

A partner who barely spoke over an evening meal at home.

In the differential

Should-statements
Personalisation
Emotional reasoning
Mind-reading
No distortion — a reasonable reaction

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This case first aired on August 1, 2026. A fresh distortion runs every morning — same rules, five minutes, one solution.

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