Thank you for posting this. The difference is that you are sorry for the things you did that you know now were not right. Not all people who cause abuse are like this. Sadly, some of them never say they are sorry because they are not. They continue to make an excuse for their actions. My father is a pedophile and even after serving jail time and being exposed, he still blames my ex-husband for giving him some medication he claims "made" him do it. Of course that doesn't hold water because he was abusing children before I even met my ex! The point is though that many sociopaths are just not capable of feeling any remorse for harming others. You are not like that from what you said :-)