Definition

The Road 2 relationship depth band for Guests with less shared history and trust right now — but fully family. Still owed the full family standard of dignity, welcome, and care. Extended versus immediate describes relationship depth and shared life in both directions, not human worth. A Guest in the extended band can move to immediate family if the relationship is cared for properly — no current visit pattern or spend freezes them there.

Explanation

The critical guardrail here is the worth clause. Extended family isn’t a lesser tier of Guest — it’s an earlier point in the same relationship arc that immediate family occupies further along. Treating extended-family Guests as less deserving of care would contradict the entire premise of Road 2, which is that every Guest gets the family standard regardless of where they currently sit.

What moves a Guest from extended to immediate isn’t frequency or spend by themselves — it’s the density of shared life accumulating through genuine relationship-building, the same mechanism [Earned Trust] describes through closed [Trust Arcs]. The band names where they are, not a ceiling on where they can go.