Thread: Making Amends
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Old Feb 25, 2017, 11:07 PM
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I'm sorry that you've lost a friend. You can reach out to her and try to not bring up politics at all. But, unfortunately, she knows where you stood in the election, and for her, that was a line in the sand, it sounds. If she doesn't feel like she can be friends with you, you just have to respect that and move on.

I honestly don't see how you can make amends without talking about the issue of the different political views, since that is what caused the rift. She feels (I assume) that you two have values that are too different to reconcile as friends. I have very few friends who support the other party as me in this past election, and with them it is a very superficial relationship, and we do not hang out regularly.

I just don't know that you can really make amends for something if you don't feel you've done anything wrong. So that's going to be tough.

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