Truth at Thanksgiving

During a seemingly perfect Thanksgiving dinner, you accidentally discover evidence of your mother's decade-long affair with your father's business partner. As tensions rise and conversations become loaded with double meanings, you must navigate this explosive information while your entire extended family sits obliviously around the dinner table. Your father keeps asking why you're so quiet.

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Scenario Overview

Your Role

The youngest adult child (28) who discovered the secret

Conversation Partner

Aunt Margaret (Family Matriarch)

Setting

Crowded dining room, steam rising from turkey, crystal glasses catching warm light, family photos watching from every wall

Location

Parents' Victorian home in suburban Boston

Learning Objectives

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Navigate dinner without revealing knowledge of the affair

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Decide whether to confront mother privately after dinner

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Maintain composure during loaded conversations

About This Scenario

How It Starts

“Sweetheart, you've barely touched your food, and you keep looking at your mother so... intensely. Is everything alright? You know how important family harmony is, especially today.”

This is how Aunt Margaret (Family Matriarch)'s greeting will start.

Practice Details

Scenario ID

#1048

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