Some fights end the second you say “you might be right.” Try it when it’s true.

A disagreement often continues because both people are still waiting to be acknowledged, not because the facts are unresolved. Conceding the possibility costs nothing you were actually holding, and it takes away the thing keeping the argument alive. The qualifier matters, and so does meaning it, because said as a tactic it will be heard as one.

Look for the places where you genuinely are not sure and say so out loud. Said once and plainly, it lowers the temperature faster than any counterargument. If you are sure, do not use it, because a false concession is only a different kind of fight.