What do you do...

friends do fight... its common ....just calm down relax and call up your friend and ask him sorry and start up with a new topic that u can chat .......n ur friends again...

when my two friends fight, i don't take sides..i just tell them that they should fix whatever issues they have..if they need me ill be there for them..i'll help them but i wont take sides.

I will normally try to meditate in a way. However, how far I help would depend on how much I know about the issue. It is not easy to be a mediator. It is not uncommon for them to suddenly put aside their differences and gang up against you instead. Then you would become the bad guy when you are just being nice.

Hi, arkaf61, I have 5 friends. We are all friends to each other. Nobody fought for anything. However, sometime an argument may come between us. I will always to see to it that argument never cross the border of limit. When I feel that the argument between the friends cross the limit, I will immediately ask them to close the subject. They will always honour my request. In case of any misunderstanding crops among us then we all together discuss and sort out the misunderstanding. Of course this has happened only once in 25 years friendship. Basically I will not allow my friends to fight. I will nip up the misunderstanding in the bud.

if my friends are just arguing then i would try to avoid it but if they are fighting and both of them are close to me then i would try to stop them from fighting

I will to stop them and prevent the fight from escalating. I think that should be the right thing to do. I would never just stand there and wait for them to cool down. you never whats going to happen..... Its dangerous

i hate being in the middle of friends who are fighting. i hate the feeling of seeing them at their worst. but i don't take sides. i don't try to mediate as well. all i do is make them understand that fighting each other won't get them nowhere. instead, it will just add up to the pains they have inside. so, what i do is to tell them to calm down and talk it through rather than letting them shout at each other, calling each other names and worst... fighting physically. good thing is they listen to me and so, most of the time, they talk things through... anne

I don't say anything at all I just walk away and that way they can never accuse me of taking sides and if they say after which has happened to me, " Why did you not stick up for me?" I just say that there is no way am I getting involved it is their differences not mine and as they are both my Friends I will not stick up for anyone

Hello,arkaf61,when two of my friends fight,i will not take sides as i do not know what is actually happening,taking on either sides will not be fair to anyone.May be it is none of my business at all.I will not try to mediate unless i know the reasons why they start the fight,i will try to be invisible to let them solve the problem themselves,most of the time people start fighting because of misunderstanding and they will regret doing this after that. If there are some problems between them,it is even not good for me to mediate.

When my friends fight it is almost 100 percent of the time because something is going wrong with their kids. Since you are only ever geting half the story from the kids, anyway, I usually just stand back and watch it unfold. As soon as the kids work the problems out, their mothers usually make ammends as well. The best thing to do is try to keep the mothers apart in the meantime!

hmmm...that's a pretty tough situation to be in...actually, i always have an opinion during whenever people fight...these opinions just never come out of my fight...i just wait for my friends to calm down...then if thay never get to resolve their argument, i try to talk to the both of them privatey and explain to them that a petty fight should not destroy a friendship that took them years to build...

i dont mind them. i will let them fight, i think they are big enough, smart enough to know what they are doing.

I think you are right. I would do the same like you did.

If it doesn't affect me then I usually try to mind my own business, but if it is something that affects my time with them then I try to reason it out with both sides, kind of acting as mediator. I try not to take sides though, unless it is something of a moral fashion, but I like to keep my opinions to myself and try and let them work it out for themselves.

For me it really depends on what they are fighting about. If it is over a guy then I will get involved and tell them strait up how it is and if they dont like it then that is fine. Most of the time they will say that I am right and get over it and are friends again. If it something more severe than that than I will not pick sides I will not get involved at all it is something they have to work out on there own.

I have come to realize that no matter what you do that there will still be a fight no matter what you say or do . I do like you and try to mediatate as I hate when friends are not getting along but you can't make two people who don't like each other , get along if they are not willing to change . It would be easier if everyone just got along but it is never this easy . I have actaully tried all the above mentioned to try to stop the fight but the truth is when someone is going to fight there is not much that as a friend we can say or do and it is hard to stay out of it when they are both your friends but have to come to realize this really is the best thing for you to do or they will end up mad at you .

I'll say something in a calm voice. If they will ignore me, then, I'll let them finish theirs if they are only fighting with words. If hurting each other is involved then you should be a mediate or you can get some people people to separate them. I think, fighting is not a mature thing. We can really understand each other in a calm voice, right?

i step back and let them figure things out. my friends know that if they ask me to take sides that i won't, and that it will really p*ss me off.

I think you should stay netural in the situation and not take any sides. Let them know that they are friends and it it pity to be fighting with your friend becaue good friends are hard to come by.

Hi... i always try to involve myself and try to resolve the issue between them.. but one funny thing i have noticed in my case is that they after sometime they will alright but i dont know for what reason they will be upset with me!!! pretty strange but not once,twice,thrice,several times...