People joke about the seven-year itch, and they ask, with various euphemisms, how you keep the spark alive after the honeymoon is over. I’m sure there are as many answers to that question as there are married couples, but I’ll tell you something that we’ve found. You know what’s really, really sexy eight years into a marriage? Apologies. Nothing has connected and reconnected us more than honesty, than taking responsibility, than seeing the damage we’ve wrought and working hard to make it right. Around our house, apologies are sexy. The best gifts we can give each other this year are apologies
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