Vyers/Krichevskoy

How embarrassing. I can't believe I'm doing this.

So... I know a fellow who is rather... down on his luck, I suppose you could say. Now, he is attempting to mend relations with one close to him, but, sadly, either things keep coming up or--despite his excellence with words--he finds it difficult to articulate exactly what he means to say. ...Mostly because it is rather uncomfortable.

Sadly, it seems that this has only caused my son to wish incredible harm on me the rift to widen between the two. What would you suggest this person do to fix things?