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Apologizing is essential to a healthy marriage or healthy parent-child relationship.

And the reason it's essential is none of us are perfect.

You know, all of us fail from time to time.

And you don't have to be perfect to be a good parent, but you do have to deal with your failures.

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So we have our youngest, Cody, we called us, said, hey, I'm thinking about coming down. And then we said, yeah, that'd be great. Well, I'll be there tomorrow. It shows up with us two kids. I was so excited. I did not fall asleep until 3 a.m. That's how excited I was. I mean, you screamed. I was in the garage, and I thought something tragic happened. But the reason I bring up Cody is because when he was how old, you crawled in bed with him to do what you normally do as a mom.

Well, this boy, as he was younger, he had a couple love languages were very distinct.

One was touch and the other one was words of affirmation.

And so every night he would beg me,

Mom, get under the covers and just lay here and talk to me and kind of, you know, like put my

arm around him and hug him. And so I would do that. And sometimes like, oh, I just want to go

downstairs, but, you know, I'd get underneath and we'd talk. And I'd tell him like, man,

you're great. And we'd pray.

And this one night, I think he was probably 12-ish, 13-ish.

And we had talked and I just automatically lifted up the covers just a slave with him for a few seconds.

And he said, what are you doing?

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