Glossary terms beginning with K
The plain-language glossary behind The Architecture of Intimacy — a field guide to 369 green flags of healthy relationships.
Terms beginning with K
- kin-keeping kin-keeper · kinkeeping · kinwork
- The work of holding a family and friendship network together — remembering milestones, initiating contact, organizing gatherings, and relaying news so relatives and friends stay connected.
- kitchen sinking gunnysacking
- Hauling every unresolved past grievance into a single present argument at once, until no one complaint can be heard or solved — 'everything but the kitchen sink.'
- kitchen thinking
- Silently bringing past relational grievances to mind during a new, unrelated conflict — the internal version of kitchen sinking, even when the old complaints are never said aloud.