Working Your Marriage Skills
Apologizing to your partner can help you mend some of the hurts in your relationship and start again the right way. An apology in and of itself isn’t going to be enough, however, if both you and your partner are at fault. Just one person saying sorry doesn’t help if both people had a hand in the problem to begin with. Marriage counseling will help teach you and your partner that there are two sides to a relationship and equality and respect go a long towards a healthy marriage.
If both you and your partner are equally at fault in an argument, it’s still up to one person to initiate an apology but both persons should be adult enough to admit their role in the argument and express their sincere regret that they hurt their partner. In reality, though, as an individual, all you can do is take responsibility for your part and hope that your partner does the same.
Sometimes even the most recalcitrant of partners can open up and accept responsibility for a wrong if they are asked to do so in an open, non judgmental way. Apologizing first can sometimes open the door for the other person to apologize as well.
Learning to say you are sorry and accept responsibility for your own actions is one of the many skills that are explored during marriage counseling sessions. Marriage is hard work and sometimes you have to understand that the benefits to correcting your marriage far outweigh the negative consequences of giving up.
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