How to Pay Someone Back for Something They Did for You

Like a regular loaner debt, there's no way to pay back that debt. It's up to each individual person to figure out how to appropriately reciprocate that favor based on the relationship with the person they owe and the favor. And so it becomes this kind of squishy emotional, personal choice of how to pay someone back. "It doesn't feel good to be a debt," Lisele says.