I don't think I excessively apologize. I mean, I try to avoid conflict, of course, and may apologize if I detect that there could be a snag or some area with a person I'm unsure about or suspect, but I'd like to think it's just common courtesy. At times, perhaps it seems like "common courtesy" isn't very common, and I might stand out, but I don't think I truly stand out. Not like one of those comedic tropes we might see in movies. Fred from Buffy/Angel, for example. She's always kind of apologizing, then apologizing for apologizing, then snorting and looking down, apologizing again and walking away. Heh. How can anyone not love Fred..? She isn't me though. As much as I don't particularly like it, it can be pretty much the opposite of apologizing. If I find out that there is going to be tension no matter what with someone or the cost is too undignified if I obliged them.
Fi - Introverted Feeling
Adapted from Linda V. Berens and Dario Nardi, Understanding Yourself and Others®: An Introduction to the Personality Type Code (Telos Publications, 2004) *Used with permission.
It is often hard to assign words to the values used to make introverted Feeling judgments since they are often associated with images, feeling tones, and gut reactions more than words. As a cognitive process, it often serves as a filter for information that matches what is valued, wanted, or worth believing in. There can be a continual weighing of the situational worth or importance of everything and a patient balancing of the core issues of peace and conflict in life’s situations. We engage in the process of introverted Feeling when a value is compromised and we think, “Sometimes, some things just have to be said.†On the other hand, most of the time this process works “in private†and is expressed through actions. It helps us know when people are being fake or insincere or if they are basically good. It is like having an internal sense of the “essence†of a person or a project and reading fine distinctions among feeling tones.
In Socionics terms, I am an EII (Fi-Ne)
EIIs are usually very straightforward about their feelings in front of others; what you see from them is what you get. Even at a party where everyone is supposed to be happy, they still find it hard to conceal their true feelings when they are in a bad mood. This can create distaste among the rest who feel that the EII is not cooperating by contributing to the positive and boisterous mood. This tends to lead others who don't know the EII well to have a misconception that he/she is a grouchy person by nature.
It doesn't say anything about apologizing, but connect the dots.