Possible untried experimental substitutes: "I'm sorry, please tell me how bad you think it was." "I'm sorry, I'll try not to do any further damage while I continue fixing things." "I'm sorry, I've hurt you in a way I can't undo and that creates a debt which I acknowledge."
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Or rather "I know it can't be fixed with a simple sorry, but let me try".
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Meeeh sounds like a sociopathic definition of an apology. Ideally it would mean that "I acknowledge that what I did was wrong, and I regret doing it", generally a genuine apology isn't made with the intention of being forgiven but more to convey the regret.
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And not saying it has the failure mode of people interpreting the silence as “I assert what I did wasn’t bad at all and does not need to be fixed.”
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Promising results (n=2) for "I'm sorry, I did X and ought to have done Y. Can you forgive me?", with possible responses being "I forgive you", "I don't hold it against you", "I don't feel able to just yet", "Can we clarify X/Y?", "Can we talk about a larger X-Y pattern?".
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A good apology conveys three things: 1. What we did was wrong 2. Here is what we are doing to fix it/make things right 3. Here's what we are doing to prevent it from happening again
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