Wednesday, October 25, 2006

doing "sorry"

Today was a most interesting day. Well, actually no, but it would be nice if it had been !!ha. There was an interesting part though...Today a wonderfully loved friend made a mistake for which I forgive her a hundred times over. Now the interesting part wasn't how she screwed up :) but the next part. Had that lovely friend been my husband...I would have been sooooooo mad! What is up with that? I had noooo anger feelings whatsoever towards my lovely friend. Honest, cross my heart and poke a needle in my eye. I find that I am ever so much more forgiving and lenient with my buddies, my pals, my confidantes, my bosom friends than with the love of my life and my heart's song. Am I wierd? I think partly the reason might lay in the method of grovelling for forgiveness :) My lifesblood does not grovel well. Actually he has NEVER grovelled in his entire career of marriage. Ever. My half-that-makes-me-whole seems to think that just to say, "oh...sorry" should be enough. Maybe only sweet delicate flowers such as ourselves actually get the whole feeling sorry bit. Now my dear friend grovelled VERY well. And I really do believe she was sincere in her grovelling and sorriness...even if she wasn't I wouldn't have known, that's how well she did "sorry". I wish my knight in shining armour would figure out how to do "sorry".

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I too feel like I'm much more forgiving of my friends than to my dh. I think my expectations are higher towards him than towards my friends. Alas, some grovelling would be nice once and awhile! :)

Monica said...

Love you!!! Dh says I don't say sorry well, that I'm too proud. I think it's actually because I don't screw up much and I'm usually right. :) But, dammit, when I'm ACTUALLY sorry and know I screwed up, I think I say sorry quite well and I certianlly mean it. :)