The Games People Play...But Do You Play Yourself?
- RegenaHammock.com
- Jun 2
- 1 min read
SHE the CEO™: Beyond the Room Games People Play. You meet someone at an event. The conversation flows, you exchange numbers, and you follow through by calling them just like you said you would. You plan to meet for lunch on a verified date and time with both of you confirming your availability. You reach out the day before to confirm and receive no response or text. You decide to attend as scheduled and the other person never shows up. They call you a day later and apologize, then promise to call you the next day to reschedule but did not call again until three days later.
Do you start to play this game or decide not to participate?
You can only be part of a game that you allow yourself to play in. Nobody can keep running a game on a person who refuses to be a player. The moment you decide you are done, the whole operation shuts down because you stopped showing up to the table where you were never being dealt a fair hand anyway.
Bad friendships count on your loyalty. Toxic relationships count on your history. Situationships count on your hope. Every single one of them requires your participation to survive. The minute you withdraw your presence, you are no longer a pawn. A game with only one player cannot continue no matter how badly the other person wants to keep going.
Walking away is not losing. Walking away is the only move that was always entirely yours to make. And better yet, if you see a game starting, choose not to play at all.
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