[header] How to make your partner come back to you [title] Accept the situation. [step] The first step toward trying to mend a broken relationship is to accept how things currently are and give up control over your partner. Acceptance of feelings, thoughts, and situations actually increases your ability to make positive changes. 
This occurs because practicing acceptance takes the pressure off of the need to control the situation and shifts your focus onto things you really can control such as your own behaviors. [substeps] Let's say that you and your partner split up because you had a fight about not spending enough quality time together.