How do you kiss and make up?

By TALKING, of course!

Easier said than done, isn’t it? This is the most common way to get over those relationship and friendship bumps, but a lot of people, including myself, are veeeeery stubborn. Personally, I have found it a lot easier to say “I’m sorry” as I get older and older, because I absolutely hate the idea of losing friends and making enemies. (Sometimes you do have to “break up” with friends though). Begin the conversation with:
1. Let’s let bygones be bygones!
2. Life is too short to fight about __________.
3. We are both adults acting very childish…
In this day in age, it’s so easy to get in contact with people. Remember when you had to physically stalk people? Man that was tough! (kidding) But what if they actually refuse to talk, speak, call you back, etc.?

Give them something?

Now, let’s not call this a “bribe,” but sometimes you come up short on the articulating front or the other person is refusing to talk to/see you at all. Let’s call it, “extending an olive branch,” that traditional symbol of offering peace and reconciliation. Do it! Everyone has inside jokes and favorite things—pick one, draw a picture of it, carve it out of wood, buy a replica, do an interpretive dance, anything! O-L-I-V-E B-R-A-N-C-H, olive branch!

Sarcasm....

You’d think it would make it worse, but actually it doesn’t…..for instance:

If he’s storming off to bed after being A LITTLE PUNK, you saracastically through out…right when he’s about to walk into the bedroom, “I hope you have a nightmare….”

AND THEN, he seriously can’t help but laughing…..and I know this, because I’ve done it. Nothing cures a fight like laughter.