A set of cards designed to help you answer that essential question: ‘who should I spend my life with?' When we try to imagine who we should ideally be with, we're often a bit vague: we might say we long for someone 'fun', 'nice' or 'cute'. But it can help to focus the picture a little, because the more we know about who we in particular really want & need, the better we can be at setting out to find them. Who Should I Be With? is a game designed to sharpen our sense of what we should be looking for in love. It comprises a number of cards which describe some leading habits & character traits in people. Each card has a character trait on one side & the opposite trait on the reverse; listing the pros & cons of each to help guide you to more successful choices in love. It's a realistic, insightful & often funny tool to help us form better relationships. Example Cards: Oddly Tall They've learned to carry it off; imposing/heroic; acquired compassion for anyone outside the norm. They'll always be conspicuous. Residual sense of being freaky will reveal itself. Hotel beds too small. Long haul a nightmare (unless rich). Surprisingly Short Neat, delicate, pattable; they've coped with this challenge
- they'll cope with lots of others; they know it's character that counts. Suppressed resentment. Overcompensation. It will always be something people notice. Might shout a lot in public. How to Use the Cards You might... Sort through the cards, picking out the character traits you appreciate in a partner, & the ones that you find most maddening. Play the game with a friend, & enjoy the opportunity to laugh warmly, given how imperfect we all are, at the paradoxes of choice. The bold black-&-white design lets you know these cards are concerned with opposite character traits & the mutual embeddedness of strengths & weaknesses, prompting a debate about the duality of any choice we make when it comes to love. The School of Life is an organisation devoted to teaching us how to grow into happier, calmer, more successful people. Our retail offering is made up of a range of emotional wellbeing tools that can help us to better understand ourselves & the world. These items are elegant, surprising, often witty &, above all, useful. These are tools to help us make relationships work, build fulfilling careers, understand ourselves, nurture friendships, get the most out of culture & find calm.