Kelly McDaniel
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720 appearances
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first heard May 2025
last heard 21 May
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What is the apology ache?
So part of the pathological hope, the hoping someone will change, I think also what I found that my clients taught me is there's this craving for an apology that mom will one day kind of say, I'm so sorry.
And not just say, I'm sorry, forgive me, and then keep doing the same thing.
Or I'm sorry you feel that way.
Well, that's gaslighting.
Exactly.
But an apology is, I'm sorry I did that, and I'm actually going to do something different now.
That's pretty rare that we get that kind of apology.
Any other kind of apology is not really an apology.
So most of us as grown-up women are walking around wanting this apology.
I call it an ache because it's almost as biological as the hunger.
Please just recognize what happened and then I'll be okay.
All of us, I think, when we're waiting for an apology, for a recognition of this is why you're hurting, before we know where that comes from, we want our partners to apologize.
We want our best friends to apologize.
We want our kids to apologize.
We need someone to apologize for the fact that our feelings are hurt.
Exactly.
I named Apology 8 because it is a name that I'm giving one of the stages of grief that
So it's actually a form of grief, just like blame is, just like rage is.
Apology ache is a form of pining.
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