To apologize

Do you find it difficult to apologize when you are wrong?  Would you rather confront the issue or try to sweep it under the rug?

This article talks about how and why to apologize among other things:

https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/how-to-apologize.htm 

Wouldn't it have been better never to commit the transgression at all?  What happens when sorry isn't enough?

https://www.cbc.ca/news2/interactives/sh/doEAa20CHM/when-sorry-isnt-enough/ 

This is a podcast I listen to that gave me the idea for this topic:

http://freakonomics.com/podcast/apologies/

Let's all try to think of a time when we apologized, how it went, and what was the resolution.