"Why Won't You Apologize?: Healing Big Betrayals and Everyday Hurts" by Harriet Lerner

This was fine. The book goes into what a good apology consists of, and the how and why of the terrible apologies most people give. It gives tips for giving, accepting, and refusing apologies. Honestly great information for anyone to read up on, and in that regard it was useful for me. I liked that the author also dedicated a section to describing how forgiveness isn't necessary for healing and moving on. What I thought this book lacked was more insight into worse situations, for lack of a better description. Most of the book's examples concern people with good intentions who just didn't know any better, but who were willing to adapt and eventually sincerely apologized. It never really goes into power imbalances or people with bad intentions. There's only one page about how some people will cause massive hurt and never apologize, and if you're the victim, confrontation will probably retraumatize instead of leading to an apology. If you want to learn how to properly apologize, or you…