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Rated: ASR · In & Out · Relationship · #2104731
How do you indicate that the fight is over? Who makes the first move? For a newsletter.
This is a question for anyone,
but especially, someone in a romantic relationship.

So you've had a fight, and you want to make up.

What happens?
Who says what to whom? Who responds how?

Unlimited postings and direct follow ups allowed, so go ahead and spill over to the next post if you need to.

(Keep it at ASR, please!)

Romantic: Dragon is hiding Author IconMail Icon
At: 12-06-16 @ 6:59am
This: I would say 99% of the time, the silent treatment is involved when there's a fight. If it's between a grown-up and a child, the adult is always right. Even if they're not. That's just how it is in our culture. So the child (or younger one) will (pt 1)

Romantic: Dragon is hiding Author IconMail Icon
At: 12-06-16 @ 7:02am
This: pt2 have to meekly/humbly approach the adult and ask forgiveness at least a couple times before pardon is given. However, if it's between adults, there's still usually the silent treatment, but after the silent spell is some telling-off, and then profuse

Romantic: Dragon is hiding Author IconMail Icon
At: 12-06-16 @ 7:04am
This: apologies ensue after, during, or both after and during the telling-off. Depending on the severity of the "crime", it can take anywhere from 10 minutes to a few hours before fights are fully resolved. If it's the latter, it's best to leave the mad party

Romantic: Dragon is hiding Author IconMail Icon
At: 12-06-16 @ 7:06am
This: alone during that time to cool off, and then approach them again in about half-hour or longer intervals, with apologies and maybe some begging: "please, I don't want to fight." or "I didn't mean it that way." It usually doesn't work, but on the rare

Romantic: Dragon is hiding Author IconMail Icon
At: 12-06-16 @ 7:08am
This: occasion that it does, usually the adults will be back to cracking jokes or laughing at the other's expense within minutes, and it's as if the fight never happened. (the end)

Romantic: Steev the Friction Wizurd Author IconMail Icon
At: 12-06-16 @ 10:21am
This: The fight is never over. It's like a flame that sometimes flickers and sometimes roars. For a good relationship, it has to merely flicker most of the time. If it does roar, then often a period of sleeping will return it to a flicker.

Romantic: Samberine Everose Author IconMail Icon
At: 12-06-16 @ 8:38pm
This: I try to let him know that I'm mad and the causes why I'm mad and the problem why there's a fight, then I or most often we both preferred to be in silence, or leave him or not talk to him for a while.

Romantic: Samberine Everose Author IconMail Icon
At: 12-06-16 @ 9:20pm
This: Then when our bad emotions drained or went off, that is the time that we talk. You can't decide a good decision or talk well when you are angry or have bad emotions. {e:smile}

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