jaguarundi
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ardour said:jaguarundi said:After a bit it seems like attention seeking - constantly wanting someone to say 'no, you are not like that, you are wonderful really.'
It is often like that. But sometimes it's just a habit, a go-to form of humour, or a way assuaging someone's anger for something you might have said or done.
I am sure that might be true. Unfortunately it is a bad habit, really, you end up either pissing people off or actually convincing yourself it's true. And actually, if it is about assuaging people's anger, if you have to keep on and on doing it (assuming the 'offence' isn't, say, murder, adultery, gambling the house away or whatever) then I would tend to find the other person might not be worth saying 'sorry' to.
(But then I have celtic blood, and the joke about Celtic Alzheimer's sums it up - we forget everything except the grudges...)