Can sorry help?

India
April 9, 2008 3:46am CST
I am the kind of a person who doesn't tell people often that I love them.It's just in me,I can't reach out to them often and can't say it in words.But they seem to know.I also find it trouble saying 'sorry' after a fight even if I try to say it!I feel that if they love me they should accept me the way I am loving me when I deserve it the least! In my relationships where I feel that things can change or make a difference because i would want to make them better.So is it sorry which can stop a fight instantly?Is it enough telling the person that you are aware of your mistakes?Can sorry mend a broken heart?How do you say it when you know that you haven't hurt people intentionally and what you did was not what you intended to do?
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18 responses
@pooh08 (671)
• Vietnam
10 Apr 08
If you make a mistake one time, I think "sorry" can accept. But if you happen it again, I think too much "sorry" can help you. Please don't let it happen again!
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@dpk262006 (58678)
• Delhi, India
9 Apr 08
It depends upon person to person, whether he/she wants to say 'sorry' or not. In your case, I believe, you would have got some very understanding friends, to whom, even if you do not say 'sorry', they do not mind it. As far as I am concerned, if I commit a mistake, I do not mind saying 'sorry' to the other fellow. Even if I have to say sorry to my better hald or to my kids, I immediately go for it. I think, feeling 'sorry' conveys right message to the other fellow and he should know that anybody is liable to commit mistake any time. You would have heard 'to err is human....'. I can tell you saying 'sorry' does help and we should not have any hestiation or inhibition in saying it.
@dpk262006 (58678)
• Delhi, India
9 Apr 08
Saying 'sorry', I believe can mend broken hearts. You give it a try seriously, I hope you will succeed. Best of Luck!!
@winterose (39887)
• Canada
10 Apr 08
saying I love you is important, no you don't have to say it every day but do say it it makes the other person feel good, even if they know it already, sorry is the same, sometimes you just have to hear that would sorry, whether or not you love the person or not, think of some one who hurt you, and didn't say they were sorry how would that make you feel?
@gxnfly (1147)
• China
10 Apr 08
I don't see "I love you" very often ,I take love very seriously,so I don't say"love"easily.But I do say"sorry" when I found I was wrong in my relationship.Actually it's me who started most of the fight of our relationship.My boyfriend has a very good temper.So I say sorry as soon as I realize I 'm wrong.I like this sentence,"When never you find your wrongdoing,be quick with reparation."
@rhane7315 (5649)
• Philippines
12 Apr 08
if i can't say it in front of them and even expresses it, my second option would be definitely making an apology letter in that way i can express my feelings and say that i'm really sorry and i was not aware that i've hurt them unintentionally
• Philippines
10 Apr 08
no ... one must always change the damage that he/she has done repent...!
@sid556 (30959)
• United States
10 Apr 08
I grew up with an anxiety disorder called selective mute. No matter what I felt, in intense moments, I could not no matter how much I wanted to....simply could not tell anyone how I felt. My father who also had it, told me that regardless of how hard it was for me to speak that it was important that I communicate. He was right. after all there are deaf and dumb and blind people. Communication is so very important. I smiled often and learned to look people in the eye to let them know I was interested in what they were saying. I also learned to express my thoughts and feelings in writing. People used to say that my eyes talked for me. I also worked very hard to overcome my problem and it took years but I have. I very rarely now have a problem speaking to anyone. I have a daughter who was diagnosed the same and I had to be her advocate. she is 23 and making progress. Now...if I am in a relationship with someone for whom talking comes easily, I get very frustrated if they use the lame excuse that they just can't communicate. YES YOU CAN! I do understand it is hard but if I could do it so can you...you just have to make it important to you.
@laurika (4532)
• United States
10 Apr 08
No, it is not only you. I am good at saying sorry, but saying I love you, I am not good at it. Speicaly to m parents or so, because I guess we are just not used to it. I have very strict parents and even know they are trying control my life, so it is hard to tell them I love them.
@manya_pearl (1901)
• Singapore
9 Apr 08
hi, i actually the same with you, i dont have a good ability to say i love... to the person i love, my family and even my bf. I dont know why, i show to them in other way. sorry actually will not mend the broken heart, but its better than no sorry... if you say sorry to someone, it means that you still have heart to feel how hurt the person... and it shows that you're still human. ahaha.lol
• India
9 Apr 08
oh yes, it makes a world of a difference just those few words. i must say it really helps a relationship when you can communicate your feelings well. when you have a fight, it does not cost anything to just say youare sorry if you have hurt someones feelings. in a relationship you long to hear few caring words. not necessary there has to be an occasion for you tell someone how nice they are or you love them. words said out of the blue are the most memorable. it feels wonderful
@alexigne (903)
• Philippines
9 Apr 08
sorry might be a simple words and nonsense because you already hurt them unconsciously or even you intentionally did but this simple words will somehow ease the worry if they the receiver feel its genuinely. for some cases it is not applicable, i myself don't always say sorry. I believe that love speak always but not always in words. Sorry is not the only way to show what you really feel for what happen. Let them see the real you for them to realize what's really going on and face the reality.
@jesbellaine (4139)
• Philippines
9 Apr 08
It is true that actions speaks louder than words but sometimes, it really makes a difference if you know how to say the word "I LOVE YOU" to your loveone's. For me, I love it when my boyfriend or my sister told me that they loves me. They don't do it very often but at times I need someone, that 3 simple words will change everything! No, sorry will not make the argument stops at all times. You should say sorry if you really mean it. It should come with sincerity because we can feel if the person is really true on what he was saying...
10 Apr 08
I can honestly say that that little five-letter word means a whole world to a whole lot of people, including myself. My bloke is really a sweet-heart, but he wasnt really brought up to go saying sorry after everything he did wrong, he didnt think it meant much difference if he said it or not.. whereas i was brought up by my grandma, who drilled it into me to always appologise through words to someone you've upset ~ not just to say sorry, but also say what you are sorry FOR! ~ Well, my bloke, he'd just go quiet and say very little if he upset me in the early days (and still occassionally which still drives me mad!), and this would reeeeally upset me even more, because i just couldnt understand why he wasnt saying sorry! Such a simple little word, but it has so much meaning! And to not say it, is like almost telling me you're NOT sorry.. So, after heaps of drawn out arguaments that could have been stopped so quickly n easily, i think he finally realised that when he actually spoke the words, and told me he was sorry, that it DID make a difference ~ it made me belive that he WAS sorry.. so we'd make up faster. What im trying to say is... that if someone has thought enough about wehat they've done to think about saying sorry, and if they've realised they've upset you, and TRY to make things better.. well it counts for a whole lot! There's a chance that they care enough about you to want to make things better ~ but.. BUT!// ONLY if they look like they MEAN it when they say they're sorry.. the bodylanguage has to be there too. LOL, i dont know if this made any sense... but for a little word, i think 'Sorry' can make a BIG difference ~ even if it is the 'hardest word to say'. xx
• Trinidad And Tobago
9 Apr 08
OK. Now if you keep on saying sorry after every fight then your peer or whosoever you fight with sees that and then you may become very vulnerable and then that may cuse an even bigger fight ok. So, every time you know there's going to be a fight or you feel tension between the two of you tell him that we can resolve this wiyhout raising our voices even self you were wrong or not it doesn't really matter as long as it's resolved, mistakes happen everyone make them nobody's perfect, even after or during the fight and you may both say things that you all that you'll both regret in the end then try and resist from calling each other names and if you both have a tendency of apollogising to each other try and do it 1 less this time if you're habitual of apologising 3 times after a fight it might not mend a broken heart but it'll make you feel better. See the thing about hurting someone is that you hurt them but you know that you did not hurt them on purpose but by mistake , no matter what they'll think that you did so just to make you feel more bad about yourself don't apologise if you know that you didn't do it on purpose because they'll find your weak spot and always tell you that your hurting them even when you're not. Don't sell yourself short you're worth more than that.
@chiyosan (30183)
• Philippines
9 Apr 08
i dont think it will help at all if you are just saying it for the sake of ending an argument. misunderstanding must be talked over patiently and clearly. it gets bigger when it is allowed to pile up. A simple sorry does not mend the heart, at least not for me i think it takes more than a word to mend a broken heart, and to put back trust again... If you are very well aware of your mistakes, the best thing is to make up for the things you made that hurt this person.
@subha12 (18441)
• India
9 Apr 08
its not going to help all the times. its also depends on how serious the problem is. when its too serious just a sorry can never do the damage control as i guess.
@Esoteric1 (863)
• Canada
9 Apr 08
I too have difficulties expressing myself or displaying affections. that in and of it self is not a problem. if you love someone you should accept their apologies if they were genuine. same can be said if you're the one saying sorry if you mean it and they care about you they should accept that you didnt mean to make them feel the way they do. in terms of fights a simple sorry can stop them but normally i found that they don't always. I also think saying sorry all the time is redundant people use it when they really don't mean it like a reflex. they say sorry and go right back to doing what caused them to say sorry in the first place. I doubt a sorry could mend a broken heart but then again I don't know what would. as long as you treat people the way you want to be treated, you shouldn't have to many I'm sorry's to say.
• India
9 Apr 08
Sorry doesn't mend broken hearts.. neither does it make a person feel better after they have made them feel bad. Sorry doesn't help, no matter what. If someone has done something by mistake and are feeling bad about it, then its fine, but nowadays its a fad to hurt someone and say sorry pretending to have felt guilty for what they have really done. bourne