A man approached dozens of strangers waiting at a train station on a rainy day and asked to borrow their cellphones. Most people — 91 percent — turned him down. ... for saying sorry.

What to do when he says sorry. If your man struggles to admit he’s wrong, then apologizing is a big accomplishment. The best thing you can do is accept his apology and forgive him.

While it’s important to think critically about when we want to apologize, we might also want to think about why men don’t. Conversely, we should be teaching men how to “man up” by apologizing more, ...

Since childhood I had been against the practice of saying “sorry” just for the sake of saying it. ... “Man, f**k Wayne,” Troy laughed, swallowing a burning gulp of cognac.

The 22 Best Songs to Say ‘Sorry ... Madonna is over her man’s crocodile tears in her 2005 hit, running through apologies in different languages, saying that she’s “heard it all before. ...

A new ad by the hair care company Pantene asks why women apologize so much and raises the question whether women say ‘sorry’ more often than men.