True Love Advisor Newsletter, July 2008:

"I Was Wrong, You Were Right" - The Power of Apology

"I was wrong. You were right".

I guess you're familiar with that statement. It's a statement of apology made by one person to another.

The statement is simple enough. But it's about the most difficult statement to make by a lot of people. Funny enough, it's about the most important in a love relationship.
Wait a minute. Why do you need to apologize?
The simple truth is . . . sooner or later, you will offend your love partner because you're human. And "it is human to err".

We are all imperfect. Sooner or later you will make a mistake. The mistake may be small or big. The survival of your love relationship after a mistake or misdemeanour is not necessarily a function of how big your error is. It's often a function of how you react after you err.

When you're quick to apology when you err against your partner, you smoothen the rough edges, you sooth the hurt feelings and emotions of your lover.

Arrogant people are too full of themselves to apologize. And that almost always cost them the love of the man or woman they hold dear.

My advice?

Be quick to apologize when you wrong your mate.

Simply say, " I'm sorry. I was wrong".

Say it and mean it.

People see through pretenses. If you're wrong or you have made a mistake . . .

confess your error to your mate

be quiet and absorb the insult that he or she may throw at you for disappointing his/her

accept counsel

repent and

move on

It's so important to do this. If you don't, you risk losing your partner for life.

Admitting that you're wrong i not easy. Listening to emotional 'bashing' for choosing the wrong course is not easy.

However, the bible says, "Discipline is not joyous but grievous. But afterwards, it yields peaceable fruits".

Simply put, accepting discipline, changing your wrong course, and apologizing can result in much good . . . for yourself, for your partner, and for your love relationship.

"I was wrong, you were right" . . . learn to use those words. It may be all you need to keep your relationship forever.