RE: how do you forgive yourself?
June 10, 2012 at 11:18 pm
(This post was last modified: June 10, 2012 at 11:20 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
You have no interest in improving those areas of yourself that you found lacking? That would be plenty of motivation to continue digging up the specter of this female twice a year, wouldn't it? Perhaps you beat yourself up over it out of a desire to alter some part of yourself as much or more than you beat yourself up over anything you did to her. I only suggest this as an alternative to the fluffy appraisal of the situation which you presented which would seem to me to be a good reason to keep beating yourself up over it, it's the "right" thing to do. But if it might have a component of self interest or selfishness, well, the landscape changes and you might be tempted to give it a kick.
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