As important to your relationships as water and sunshine to a garden. Strengthening our self-esteem means examining the old scripts our families and society have handed us, or that we created ourselves under their influence. They are not monumental things. In happy relationships there are lots of caring behaviors occurring on a steady basis. It is a tool for complaining without blaming.
Guilt is among the most destructive and devastating of human emotions.
Because of its painfulness and its terrible impact on self-worth, guilt inclines one toward suppression, walls and denial.