I personally like the patient and empathetic approach as WolfGaze mentioned.

We all have to remember at one point or another all of us has made someone else uncomfortable like this at one point or another. Firstly, don't blame that person for it. You may not know what's going on.

Secondly, you cannot expect them to suddenly change. People have to learn at their own pace at the right time in their own space. Respect that as others may have done this to you in YOUR OWN troubling times.

Thirdly, try to remember that what a person says doesn't mean anything. It just means they are thinking it. You do not have ANY control over what they think or why they think it. Try to realize, that's ok. Would you want someone else to have control over what you think? Would you want someone else to change how you think? So, what I am saying here is although your intentions of trying to "FIX" them may be all well and good... If they don't want it, it's wrong.

As the old song goes... "Let it be"



Sometimes you have to, to keep your own Serenity.