Some people never seem to stop apologizing (sorry but you know who you are). But being able to apologize means you are more likely to enjoy easier and longer lasting relationships.

A survey conducted in San Francisco found that people who stay happily married are twice as likely to be able and willing to apologize to their partners as divorced or single people. The willingness to apologize to partners may be key to a lasting marriage suggested the survey of over 7,590 US adults (Zogby International pollsters). The survey found happily married people are 25% more likely to apologize first, even if they only feel partially to blame. Divorced and single people were more likely to stay single the harder they found it ever to apologize and make capitulatory gestures.

Being able to say sorry to one another certainly seemed to help this couple stay married for eighty years.

On next weekends module for the 2008 uncommon knowledge hypnotherapy diploma we’ll be focusing on relationships; how healthy one works and how to save failing ones see: Men, women and emotions or why he never tells you what he’s feeling

Mark