Let It Slide This Holiday Season 🛷❄️🎶
❄️ LET IT SLIDE ❄️
🎶 Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow… 🎶
🎶 Let it slide, let it slide, let it slide. 🎶
When holiday stress gets LIT, let it slide — and enjoy the ride.
Love Is Fun Mountain includes a downloadable SLIDES game designed to help you and your sleigh-mate stay in the game all season long.
The Holiday Truth
I LOVE the holidays.
The decorations are up.
The lights are twinkling.
The vibes are high.
Everything feels a little more LIT —
well… including our stress.
And here’s the hard snowball:
When pressure rises, people mess up — more.
We forget things.
We snap.
We get sloppy.
We do things we know better than to do.
Not because we don’t care —
but because we’re human, and December turns the volume UP.
That’s where SLIDES come in.
What Are SLIDES?
SLIDES are a CouplesTherapy.co concept designed to help couples stay connected when people are imperfect
(which they are).
Slides help you:
lower the temperature
preserve your peace
protect the JOY you’re trying to create
choose connection without pretending nothing happened
That’s not avoidance.
That’s skill.
🛷 THE SLIDES DECK
There are 10 Slides Cards total.
Rules:
Each partner starts with 5 Slides Cards.
Slides are valuable — use them intentionally.
When Your Partner Does Something Annoying
They leave the socks.
They forget the dish.
They don’t grab the milk.
Yes — that’s on them.
Before reacting, pause and ask:
Is this worth burning holiday magic over?
If it’s small, let it slide.
Protect the moment you’re trying to create.
If it still needs naming:
Say what you noticed
Say how it affected you
Acknowledge the season is intense
Then say:
“I’m going to let this slide.”
Ask for a Slide Card.
When You’re the One Who Messed Up
You snapped.
You forgot.
You kicked up some candy-cane dust.
Own it. Fast. Clean.
Say what you did
Say it wasn’t great
Say you’re sorry
Then ask:
“Can you let this slide?”
If they accept, give them a Slide Card.
Example: Granting a Slide
Slide granted.
Card accepted.
Grace extended.
Joy preserved.
This is the spirit of quick rupture and repair.
You noticed intensity.
You owned it.
You repaired it.
You protected the relationship and the moment.
That’s not extra.
That’s skill.
So yes — you may absolutely have a Slide.
The Whole Point
Slides don’t excuse bad behavior.
They prevent small mistakes from becoming big fights.
They say:
“This mattered — AND I’m choosing not to blow it up.”
That’s not avoidance.
That’s skillful.
And that’s what we’re up to at CouplesTherapy.co and Love Is Fun Mountain —
creating and choosing what matters.
What works BEST for us.
Because joy doesn’t disappear on its own —
it gets knocked over.
Slides help you pick it back up.
Ready to Play?
Print the Slides from the PDF below.
Divvy them up between you and your sleigh-mate — five for you, five for them.
C’mon…
❄️ Let it slide, let it slide, let it slide.
So you can both enjoy more of the ride. 🛷🪩🎄
— Jessica Hansen, LMFT
Founder, CouplesTherapy.co
Relationship Slides by, Jessica Hansen, LMFT & Founder
How to Play the Game of Slides
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©Slides A Love is Fun Mountain™ Holiday Game Created by Jessica Hansen, LMFT & Founder – CouplesTherapy.co