You can’t rewind a conversation. You can only have a better one tomorrow.

Words leave at full speed and land before any editing is possible, so wishing a sentence back is one of the most common and least useful feelings available. That conversation is closed. The relationship is not, and the gap between those two is what people miss while replaying a bad exchange at two in the morning.

Go back tomorrow instead of going over it tonight. Say the thing you meant, without a speech about how you did not mean the other thing. A second conversation repairs more than a flawless first one would have.