To think this might be dodging responsibility?

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DD8 just screamed her head off at a spider ( it was in the pages of her book on the floor of the loo). She can be very dramatic. I was trying to calm her down & DH came along & although he didn't shout, he sounded quite cross. Afterwards, DH said " Sorry if you thought Daddy was cross with you". Is this kind of equivalent to saying things like " Sorry you feel like that" so you are in a way putting it onto the person you have wronged? Or am I overthinking it?!

I think your over thinking it.

Definitely over thinking.

Hi - I can totally see where you're coming from.

Personally, it seems to me though like it might just be your DH apologising for how his behaviour may have come across to your DD.

I apologise in a similar way to your DH (and only realised recently that some people might not take it as a genuine apology after I read about the 'non-apology' thing that politicians do ).

I think some people just tend to phrase their apologies in a 'non-apology' way even when their apology is genuine.