You can’t help someone who doesn’t want to be helped.
You cannot accentuate someone into changing unless they realise they are responsible.
The best way, then, to induce change is a combination of letting people be + sending them blessings + keeping your mind free from any stains towards them (learnt this from spirituality).
Words don’t being as much comfort as meditation does PS: You are meditating even when you are not sitting around to meditate.
The only thing that will save you in every area of life (relationships, career, yourself) is an undying quench for knowledge. Reading good books saves your soul, and this is no understatement.