heart-to-hearts
Deep personal conversations
Heart-to-hearts are intimate, honest conversations, typically between two people who trust each other enough to share personal feelings or difficult truths.
The term implies emotional openness and sincerity: We had one of our heart-to-hearts about where the relationship was going.
The singular form is more common.
Sharing secrets trustingly
- vulnerabilityOpenness to harm
- opennessQuality of being accessible
- sharingDividing among others
- trustConfidence in another
secrets · feelings · emotions · bonding · closeness · honesty · authenticity · tears
Romantic partners together
- partnersJoint venture participants
- parentsMother and father
- siblingsFellow offspring
- friendsVoluntary close relations
reconciliation · understanding · clearing the air · making up · reconnecting · mending · bridging · resolving
Speaks with others
- discussionsConversations examining a topic
- chatsInformal conversations
- dialoguesExchanges between speakers
- exchangesReciprocal transfers between parties
late-night · fireside · kitchen table · pillow talk · one-on-one · face-to-face · sitting down · listening
confiding
Sharing secrets trustingly
- vulnerabilityOpenness to harm
- opennessQuality of being accessible
- sharingDividing among others
trust · secrets · feelings · emotions · bonding · closeness · honesty · authenticity · tears · connection
couples
Romantic partners together
friends · reconciliation · understanding · clearing the air · making up · reconnecting · mending · bridging · resolving · family
talks
Speaks with others
- discussionsConversations examining a topic
- chatsInformal conversations
- dialoguesExchanges between speakers
exchanges · late-night · fireside · kitchen table · pillow talk · one-on-one · face-to-face · sitting down · listening · speaking freely
- discussionsdiscussion, discussions, forum, talks, roundtable
- sistersolder sister, twin sisters, younger sister, half-sisters, half-sister
- Confidencessecrets, confessions, disclosures, admissions, revelations
heart-to-heartssmall talk
Polite trivial conversation
chitchat · pleasantries · idle chatter · banter · gossip
heart-to-heartsevasions
Deliberate avoidances of directness
deflections · stonewalling · lies · deceptions · cold shoulders
heart-to-heartsnegotiations
Formal discussion seeking agreement
transactions · interrogations · cross-examinations · diplomatic exchanges
heart, hearts, hearted, heartless, heartfelt, hearty, heartily, heartiness, sweetheart