"Set a hard expiration date on grief and complaint Vaughn described a friend-group rule he'd lived by: if someone went through a bad breakup, everyone would clear the decks and give that person full space to process it — but only for a limited window. "After three weeks, you're not allowed to talk about it anymore. There's nothing else to say. We got to drop it and move on." He connected this to a broader societal pattern where indulging difficult feelings beyond their useful window keeps people depressed rather than healing them: "if you're always bringing up the stuff, you just kind of stay depressed." The actionable shift is to give yourself and others a defined grieving runway, then actively close it. Source: Vince Vaughn, Theo Von Podcast, Vince Vaughn Episode"