When you’re running a few minutes late for dinner with friends, are the first words you say to the table, “I’m so sorry, I should have left earlier,” even though no one is upset? Do you feel the need ...

It can become such a reflex that it's easy to miss that you're even saying the word: "Sorry, quick question," or, "I'm sorry for the long email." Apologizing has its ...

Saying sorry is one of the toughest things to do. And most of the time, we want to get it done in a hurry. We want to say it and get it over with. It's like baggage we want to let go of. So we send a ...

It’s instinctive. A guy bumps into me on his way out of a classroom and the word tumbles out of my mouth: “sorry.” He isn’t sorry. In fact, he doesn’t even acknowledge me — he just leaves. Why am I ...

I don’t remember when I started being an over-apologizer. It might have been at a previous job, when my bosses told me that I was “questioning” my senior colleagues too often. Somewhere early in my ...

I have a fraught relationship with the words “I’m sorry.” I say it constantly, habitually, even when I don’t mean to. I was raised in the South, where women are often conditioned to apologize ...