Before you determine that a difficult situation or a breaking relationship can only be remedied with a necessary ending, there are steps to consider that might make an ending unnecessary. Because the best predictor of the future is the past, that is where you've got to focus and determine what proven change processes must be taken to keep hope alive-whether within marriage, family, employment, friendship. This message gets very specific about strategies that can be incorporated to indicate a seriousness about wanting to bring about hope in order to avoid an unnecessary ending.