Of the dozens of meetings that took place over the past month regarding the Mets’ managerial opening, you could argue the most important one concerned a reunion and a reassurance.

“We had a very nice conversation,” Jessica Beltran told The Post of her get-together with Mets owners Fred and Jeff Wilpon, her first in over eight years. “We wanted to make sure that everything was left in the past and we’d move forward. It was very nice.”

The Mets introduced Jessica’s husband, Carlos Beltran, as their new manager on Monday, all of the standard festivities and hyperbole accompanying the announcement, and the shock from Friday’s news of a three-year agreement still hadn’t fully dissipated. How in the world did we get from one of the rockiest player-ownership discords in recent New York sports history to those owners’ profound entrustment in that player on Monday?

The simple answer appears to be that time healed enough wounds. You won’t find any equivalent of the Paris peace talks, one breakthrough moment. Instead, actions by both sides led them to this unlikely reconciliation and, of all things, escalation. Looking ahead, the onus falls on Beltran, clearly more sinned against than sinning in what went down, to maintain that inner peace and forgive, if not forget, sufficiently.

“I wouldn’t be standing here if everything wasn’t clear with the organization,” Carlos Beltran said. “I’m excited to be back, honestly. It was a situation that I was able to move forward. And I personally believe that you can’t progress in life if you think in the past. You have to be able to be conscious and live in the present moment.”

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