When you were a child, did your parents apologize to you? Ever? Sure, the art of apologizing is taught to children through song and in schools—the four magic words/phrases being "please," "thank you," ...

Have you ever met someone who would rather do anything but apologize? Or did you try to get an apology out of someone, but they kept dancing around the topic? Not only is this incredibly frustrating, ...

It probably wasn’t until my 20s when I realized that I had an issue with apologizing. While I grew up around family members who shared my general communication style, being in lots of new social ...

If you apologize to people all the time, you rob yourself of the basic freedom of actually saying what’s on your mind. Here are 4 possible root causes of your chronic over-apologizing habit. Many ...

Stop apologizing for things that aren't your fault. Source: Photo by Alexander Suhorucov from Pexels Does either of these situations sound familiar? You start an email to your boss with, “I’m sorry to ...

From everyday questions to more complex problems, we’re asking the experts to lend us a hand. Throughout the series Professional Help, we’ll hear some direct advice for us not-so-direct Minnesotans.

There are many uses of the word sorry. There’s the genuine and heartfelt apology. We also know the sarcastic one that fuels an argument like igniter fluid (“So sorry I can’t read your mind!”). Don’t ...

Apologizing is a nasty habit I, like many other millennial women, developed at a young age. I’m not saying that apologizing ...

The Apology Gap: Why Are We Saying Sorry for Taking Up Space? Let’s paint a familiar picture. You’re walking down a crowded sidewalk, and someone bumps into you ...