Starting with 'breadth questions' is a great way to take any convo from awkward small talk to comfortable real talk, according to Terri Orbuch, PhD, a relationship expert, therapist, and author of 5 Simple Steps to Take Your Marriage from Good to Great. (Think: Your very hard-to-impress mother-in-law.) Luckily, there are a few expert-approved tricks that'll help you get on your conversation A-game. And sometimes, those interactions are unavoidable. Then, of course, there's the flip side of that-where as much as you want to warm up to someone and vice versa, every chat with them feels terribly stiff. You know the feeling: The conversation just flows, everything feels easy, and before you know it, hours have passed by. Meeting someone new that you're able to click with easily is so refreshing.
