Dear Jamie:

If he indeed insulted you, downgraded you and played with your feelings, an apology will need to have these wrongdoings mentioned, such as in ..I am so sorry I called you X and Y, that was insulting, disrespectful, etc.

“This month, this is an invitation to forgive” is not an apology because it does not detail a single wrongdoing.

So I wouldn’t reply to that vague invitation as if it was an apology. (and the fact that you miss him doesn’t make it an apology either).

You will not “sound like a child by not replying”- not in my mind. Not replying is not about you being childish; it is about not having something of substance to reply to!

anita