Of course, one must be careful not to attempt it immediately after the offense while emotions are still highly aroused and may interfere. Although forgiveness has occurred, friendship may not have yet been restored, and that is what is missing. Forgiveness may involve only one person, but reconciliation always takes two. Note that here we are talking about restoring a relationship between you and someone you know has something against you. We are not talking about the situation in Matthew 18 which involves you having something against another person.
People are sometimes unsure of how to go about actually moving toward reconciliation.
Fred DiBlasio has developed several steps he uses to help people through forgiveness and into reconciliation. After defining, considering scriptures on, and explaining forgiveness and reconciliation, he introduces the following steps. Then after reviewing the steps, he asks if the people want to go through them toward reconciliation. If so, they proceed. If not, they wait.