Life cake
Partners each write down several feelings (some they like and some they don’t like) on separate pieces of paper, then locate and sort ingredients for a cake onto those feeling papers, based on how they like that taste (e.g., putting flour on the “lonely” paper and chocolate chips on the “excited” paper). Partners then add each ingredient, according to the recipe, into a bowl marked “life,” talking about different times they felt each of these feelings. While the cake bakes, partners discuss what they do when hard feelings come. Finally, partners decorate the cake, making each decoration something they want more of in their life (e.g., “I’m putting sprinkles for snuggles, because I like it when we watch movies on the couch together!”). As they eat the cake together, they take note that every ingredient, whether they like it or not, is part of the cake, just like every feeling is part of life.
