Restoring Integrity

Practical Steps for Repair and Reconciliation

Though misunderstandings and disagreements can feel uncomfortable, even painful, real harm to a relationship is something more significant. When you compromise your integrity, you harm the other person’s ability to trust you, limiting the potential of your relationship.

Regret signals an opportunity to apologize and take steps to repair and reconcile. Yet most people don’t know how to apologize in a way that successfully repairs the damage done and restores mutual trust and respect. Let’s look deeper at how to build and maintain the integrity required for the most profound and fulfilling relationships.

What is Integrity?

Have you ever wondered what integrity means precisely? For our purposes here, integrity means following through on your commitments and making things right when you fail. It also includes making only the commitments that are right for you.

Sometimes, this means doing something even when you don’t feel like it. And making commitments you’re likely to keep requires you to accurately gauge your future behavior in various situations.

Without integrity, you will not cultivate the trust that others need to make long-term plans with you and be there for you when the going gets tough…