Psychologists have many ways to help people solve their difficulties, but one of the most favorite forms of work is fairy tale therapy. A therapeutic fairy tale, written for your specific task, will help you it is easy to solve the difficult problem in which you now find yourself. Enjoy your reading (✷‿✷) How to make peace with a person who does not want to make peace: a therapeutic fairy tale In one distant country, where unicorns graze on turquoise fields, and blue butterflies fly in the turquoise sky Once upon a time there lived two gnomes, Tim and Tom. Good, kind friends, somewhere jokers, somewhere hard workers. Together they went through thick and thin and nothing, it seemed, could destroy their friendship. One day Tom decided that time was passing and it would probably be nice to open some kind of business. Go into business, become a respected gnome in the village. He imagined how important it would be to walk around the city, leaning on a beautiful branded cane. How the young ladies of the gnomes would look at him with admiration. How he would woo the first beauty in his city, Kasandra, and it is quite possible that she will even agree. Thinking and dreaming about his new life, Tom became even more excited. And, at some point, he definitely decided: he needed to open a business. However, there was one small difficulty: the desire was great, but there was money, alas, not much. And then Tom decided to borrow a certain amount from Tim for about six months, at a small interest rate; after all, he is his best friend. And everyone knows that the best friends will never abandon you in difficult times. Tim, of course, went to meet his friend, especially since six months is not such a long time. Tom took the money. And he decided that he would open a bakery where he would sell pies according to his grandmother’s signature recipe. He renovated his grandmother's house and put everything in order. I painted the tables and chairs and whitewashed the ceiling. He bought flour, sugar, yeast, spent almost all the money, and just as he was about to bake pies, it turned out that the flour he got was raw. Tom was very upset, it was already time to give the money to Tim, and then it turns out he had to buy flour again. There is nothing to do, but don’t abandon what you started halfway. Tom went to the bank and took out a loan at high interest rates. He bought flour and gave almost all the profit to the bank, because he understood that the faster he paid off the bank, the faster he would “free his hands ". He didn’t give the money to Tim on time. He couldn’t give it back in a year, or two, or even three. Because Tom understood that the interest in the bank was much higher than that of Tim, and Tim was still a friend, well, he should understand his position. Tom many times asked Tim to be patient, several times changed the terms of the agreement, somewhere dodged how “already”, thinking how to get out of this situation. His friend made concessions, tried to get into his position, but time passed and little by little Tim began to get angry. Moreover, he tried to give almost all the profit from the bakery to the bank and only in the 4th year he was able to repay the debt to his friend. By this time Tim was already almost furious, especially when he saw that Tom was angry because Tim charged him interest on the loan. Tim knew from childhood that you need to confidently defend your interests, especially if you are right. Tim knew this from childhood. Yes, friendship is good, but only if this friendship is without parasitism. Unfortunately, these events were not in vain, and the friendship swayed. Although each of them wanted to return to the times when they were bosom friends. Each of them recalled moments when they supported each other, both in difficulty and in joy. One day, Tom went to a local church and shared his story with the pastor. The pastor said to the gnome: “You know Tom, first of all, stop thinking about the bad and beating yourself up; and secondly, remember - a strong friendship will always survive all troubles. All you need to learn is to take a useful rule: in order to solve something, you need to negotiate and talk, i.e. "negotiate on the shore." A useful rule!” Tom was walking home and after talking with the pastor, he came to a feeling of lightness and understanding of how to solve this situation./