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lakersgirl asked in Social SciencePsychology · 10 years ago

Is it harder to forgive yourself or to forgive others?

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  • Anonymous
    10 years ago
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    most of the time, to forgive others!

  • 10 years ago

    It's a million times harder to forgive yourself

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    Forgive yourself- its harder to view a mistake as a regret and accept u have done something bad, it's easier to forgive others because it gives u a sense of superiority and u feel better for being kind IMO

  • ?
    Lv 7
    10 years ago

    It depends on how much you have hurt yourself, or how much others have hurt you. Its harder to forgive some one that has hurt time and time again, and easy to forgive some one that has hurt you only once. That's why the worst relationships are those where one person hurts the other for years on end, such hurt and abuse is termed torture, and people willing live with it, out of fear of being left alone, for example.

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  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    I find it harder to forgive others. That is probably because I don't hurt other people intentionally, and if I do hurt someone accidentally I apologize and try to make it up to them.

  • 10 years ago

    Yourself, you will forget about other people. But you will always think about what you said or did. But then again, because you are you, and you know yourself, then you understand yourself, so it may be easier to forgive yourself instead.

  • 10 years ago

    I find it WAY easier to forgive other people. When I mess up, It will stay with me until I work things out.

  • 10 years ago

    I personally find it harderto forgive myself than others. It does depend on the severity of whatever it is though...

    Typically, I know I'm better than whatever it is I screwed up in/at. So I get mad at myself; very unforgiving...

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