At home, the hardest place to say sorry is often the place it matters most.

Apologising at home is harder than apologising anywhere else, because you keep living with the person afterwards and there is no exit from the room. Families also run on long memories, so each apology sits in a stack of older ones. That is exactly why it carries weight there. The hard place is the one where saying it changes something.

Say one short sorry at home this week with no explanation attached and no list of what they did. Four words will do. Then let the evening carry on as normal.