Everyone loves the high point of a conversation.
Almost no one knows how to hold it.

That’s why the best, most electric exchanges so often die right after they peak.
Not because the connection was imagined -
because the energy never got stabilized.

High energy creates vulnerability.
Vulnerability creates internal wobble.
And wobble creates silence.

If you don’t stabilize the moment, the other person’s nervous system does it for you…
usually by pulling back.

The fix is a single message.
One line that grounds the interaction so the high point becomes momentum instead of collapse.

Most people stop here. Here’s what to do instead: