A very good friend of mine has started an internal blog at work. I read it today and his last comment was:-
“Oh yes and finally I think that being in love absolutely means you should say you’re sorry”.
Well, that has got me thinking.
Is that true?
How good are we at saying sorry?
I am personally rubbish at it. I’ve learnt to do it with the kids a bit more than before and I can say it to my friends when I’ve messed up, but when I was married my husband used to complain that I was incapable saying the word “sorry” – which perhaps concurs with my friends theory.
Why are some people good at it and others rubbish? Are women generally better at apologising than men?
I am going to spend the whole day apologising to everyone and see what happens.
July 23rd, 2010 at 6:21 am
I apologise waaaaay too much, for small things. I often wonder whether it means that when I need to say sorry for something bigger whether its taken as sincerely because I apologise for all the small things too? Having said that I will only say sorry for the things I think I have done/said wrong. If I have said something and believe it to be right/true then I won’t apologise for it. I think you should be able to say sorry when necessary and I don’t think love has anything to do with it, and you shouldn’t say sorry if you weren’t in the wrong – you just come across as a doormat.
July 23rd, 2010 at 8:48 am
OK that sounds good to me – I agree, it has to be genuine – so as I never do anything wrong, why would I need to say sorry (ha ha, only joking). Lx