A warm room can make a difficult conversation easier to stay inside.

Bodies decide more about hard conversations than people credit. When you are cold, hungry or perched somewhere uncomfortable, the urge to end the discussion arrives early and gets mistaken for a conclusion about the discussion itself. Warmth, a chair that holds you, something to drink, all extend the time two people can stay in a difficult place together. The talk is not made easier. Staying in it is.

Before the next conversation you have been putting off, sort the room first. It is not avoidance; it is removing the reasons one of you would otherwise leave early.