No need to apologise - it is different for all of us and nobody could have known how to handle this. Do everything you can to be right - but don't apologise.
It gets better. Wife has sheepishly come in the house to tell me she has scraped all down side of my car she borrowed to go to the shops. Just on my way to a motorway bridge. Bye.
I'm not mate, the avatar picture is really me when I was 12 and I've had no gender surgery.... But I just don't understand why people get so angry and protective over their cars....