I'm Sorry! Say it out loud and notice the tension in your body. Why is it there? Are you lying when you say sorry? Are you thinking " screw you bitch" in your head while your mouth utters those painful words? Or are you embarrassed because you don't like being the one in the wrong? Or are you excusing your behaviour because you were upset When you hurt someone else, so they should understand and "suck it up butter cup!".
We must always be the example we want from others. Ever notice the ones who make the biggest fuss about how others never say sorry are pretty piss poor at owning it themselves.
As parents we were supposed to help our kids own Their mistakes, but we all know someone who covered up, glossed over or excused Timmy's little and huge boo boo's, we may have even been the ones doing it for our own kids, declaring "extenuating circumstances" as to the reason this time at least we have to cover their arses.
But a stitch in time saves 9. If Timmy had learnt humility young, by the time he is monster size there is nothing within him capable of bringing out the monster.
An adult unable to humbly own their mistakes is not a pretty sight. Its frustrating as hell and often the "mummies" in the situation will rush to sooth the monster rather than sit the monster down at help them accept and own their mistake.
The fear of ownership is much worse than actual ownership. Its like lancing the boil, once its lanced the pain eases and the boil begins to heal. Once we learn to own all of us, light, dark and fucked up mess moments, we can stop running from our mistakes, we can learn to look the person we just hurt in the eye, the one we just let down or betrayed and honestly tell them that you are sorry and you know that they did not deserve that.
Trust me, that is huge, the person being given that honesty gift will carry that with them, they will treasure it because most of us are surrounded by avoidance monsters, busy making, proving or exposing the wrongness of others yet unwilling to own up to their own.