How do I apologize, take full responsibilty for the break-up of a friendship without appearing weak?
Dale Carnegie is right, to err is human, to forgive is divine…and the same goes for us when we mess up and can humble ourselves to apologize for our behaviour…it takes a special kind of person, to admit they’re wrong…and you picked a great book to read…Apologize, and by ‘meaning it’…don’t expect anything in return,..nothing…don’t expect them to jump for joy, restart the relationship, etc..make it from the bottom of your heart,and let the chips fall where they may, I admire you, by the way, for reading a book and being classy enough to admit you were wrong, and trying to do the right thing…even as far as reading a book that will help you better your relations with others BRAVO
Dale Carnegie is right. You should do all you suggested you do in the paragraph beginning with, “I want to say.” It is never weak to apologize and ask forgiveness., in fact it is weak to carry on being belligerent and argumentative. Harsh words are a result of anger and uncontrolled anger is weakness. Feeling you have to “save face” is a mark of a very weak person. If your character is all based on how you think you appear you have no real foundation for it. One can hold his head up even while sobbing with anguish over a lost relationship because crying is a form of release of badly thought out emotions and behavior. If you look to your early childhood and a baby’s way of praying for help by crying because he/she knows they are incapable of managing on their own you are a wise person. A child even a baby is not weak; they have the most sound character and personality any person will ever have, honest, brave and outgoing, and it is us adults who weakly destroy it by teaching them one ha
