Reconnection scripts · Printable PDF · Not advice
You know exactly
who you’d text.You just don’t know
what to say.
Long Time is four books of ready-to-send messages for the friendships that went quiet — the fade, the fallout, the drift. 136 scripts. One situation, one message you can send tonight.
Not sure which? Start with
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“I’ve thought about messaging you roughly once a month for two years and never did it. No reason, nothing happened — I just let it slide, and then it felt too late to pick back up.
Anyway. It isn’t too late, is it? I’d love to hear how you are. Coffee sometime this month, no agenda…”
this is the one people send first — it asks for nothing
The Research
They want to hear from you more than you think.
In a study of nearly 6,000 people, those who reached out consistently underestimated how glad the other person would be to hear from them.
And still, the message doesn’t get sent.
It’s been long enough that “hey” feels weird. Too long to pretend nothing happened. Not long enough to give up. So it sits in your head for another six months.
7-page preview · All four books
Look inside. These are the actual pages.
Not mockups. Real pages from the four books.
The Sorter
Which one is yours?
Three questions about one person. We’ll tell you which kind of silence you’re dealing with.
- The Vanishing$19
- The Rupture$29
- The Drift$24
Takes about thirty seconds.
Think of one person you’d message if it weren’t so awkward.
What’s their first name?
How these are built
Anatomy of a message that gets answered.
One script from The Vanishing, taken apart.
This is years overdue and I’m sorry it took me this long.1 I’ve missed you.2 No pressure to reply quickly3 — I’d just love to know how you are.4
Names the gap, once
One clause of acknowledgement, then it moves on. A second becomes an apology; a third becomes a burden they have to manage.
Says the feeling plainly
Three words, no hedging and no joke to soften it. Plainness is what reads as sincerity at this length.
Removes the obligation
The highest-leverage line in the whole message. People avoid replying when a reply feels like a task — this makes it easy, not optional.
One ask, not two
A second question means the easy one gets answered and the real one quietly gets dropped.
You don’t need to become more outgoing, and you don’t need to work on yourself first. You need the first forty words.
Start with one person.
Or all of them.
No subscription. No login. Yours to keep.
You don’t have one lost friendship. You have a list.
One of them just stopped replying. With one, something happened. A few drifted when life moved. The Quiet List is all three packs, plus The Sort, so you know which one each person needs. You won’t send them all this week, and you’re not supposed to.
If more than one name came to mind, this one’s yours.
$59$72
$13 less than buying separately, plus The Sort, The First Hangout, The Cadence tracker, and The Post-Mortem, which you can’t get on their own.
Or start with the one that fits.
The Vanishing
$19 · 40 scripts
No fight, no reason, just silence. The first message, and what to send after.
What’s inside
- The re-open that asks for nothing
- The Return, for when you disappeared
- Reading their reply
- The silence protocol
The Rupture
$29 · 35 scripts
Something happened. The apology that doesn’t grovel, and the way back.
What’s inside
- The apology that doesn’t grovel
- When you were the one wronged
- Name it or let it lie
- The dignified exit
The Drift
$24 · 35 scripts
Nobody broke anything. Life just moved. Fitting them into the life you have now.
What’s inside
- Parent and non-parent, both sides
- They moved, you moved
- The income gap nobody mentions
- Renegotiating the friendship
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REVIEWS
From people who sent one.
“I changed three words, stared at it for ten minutes, and sent it. She replied before dinner.”
“The apology felt direct without turning into a speech. We aren't suddenly best friends again, but we finally had the conversation we'd avoided for two years.”
“Useful and unusually specific. I wanted a few more examples for friendships that faded after someone moved, but the one I used sounded natural after a quick edit.”
“It got me past the blank screen.”
“I had six names in my notes app and no idea where to begin. The list helped me separate the people I missed from the people I only felt guilty about. I sent two messages that night.”
“The scripts aren't magic, and one reply was polite rather than warm. Still, I was relieved to stop wondering what would happen if I reached out.”
Questions, honestly answered
Before you send.
The message is already written in your head.
Reachable just gets it out of there.
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