“Seeing Dead-End Scripts When ruminative thoughts and warning lights go unseen, partners end up enacting dead-end scripts. Dead-end scripts are harmful, predictable ways of speaking, acting, and reacting to your partner that interfere with spontaneity, devitalize your relationship, and hold partners hostage to the past by recreating it in the present. Dead-end scripts lock you into outdated versions of yourselves that keep you stuck as a couple. When you see your dead-end script, you and your partner are in a better position to change the lines and rewrite the plot.”