the one about the ex saying sorry

he thing about apologies is, it's never too late to give one.

I had a boyfriend who broke up with me on my 26th birthday. ON the day. We'd had plans to have dinner, just the two of us. Instead, he pretty much said "happy birthday", picked a fight with me, and broke up with me. When I got upset because, well, it was my birthday and I had just been dumped, he'd said "Whatever Eliza, your birthday is just another day in the year".

Fast forward two and a half years, and some freak of an occurrence that brought us back in touch. We were msn-ing last night, discussing the demise of my most recent relationship, and out of nowhere he apologized for 1) the way he ended things, and 2) how he'd never treated me right in the first place. And he had nothing but wonderful things to say about me, sandwiched between apologies for having been a jerk. He even said "If anything about you ever changed, you'd be changing for the worse".

Just the simple acknowledgement of the crummy way he'd treated me seemed to wipe clean any lasting resentment I had towards him. And now he's taking me out for sushi next weekend. But just as friends, not as a date. I would never make that mistake twice!