There is a mindset I've encountered, in which the person has been so oppressed by other matters/events/people that he/she has set his feet in the earth and refuses to budge -- and that includes saying sorry, because it's admitting that once again he/she is wrong. There is no gradation of 'wrongness' -- 'sorry' for something offensive is equivalent to admitting to an admission of being worthless lying scum.
It is something I had to deal with in a relative for a long long time, and I never figured out how to do it.
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It is something I had to deal with in a relative for a long long time, and I never figured out how to do it.