Leave the conversation while it’s still good. Overstaying is how most people undo a win.

There is a point in most good conversations where everything that needed saying has been said, and staying past it takes things apart again: one joke too many, one question that reopens the argument, a silence somebody fills badly. The ending is part of how it gets remembered, and it tends to be left to chance.

When a conversation hits its natural top, let that be the end of it. Say you need to go and go. People look forward to the next one when the last one finished well.