CHANGE YOUR THINKING CHANGE YOUR LIFE
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worse, you keep your negative feelings of inferiority and anger alive.
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If your parents die without your having forgiven them, it can bother
you for the rest of your life.
■ CLOSE PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS
The second group you must forgive is the people from your close re-
lationships that didn’t work out. Marriage and other intimate rela-
tionships can be so intense, and so threatening to your feelings of
self-esteem and self-worth, that you can be angry and unforgiving
toward those people for years.
But you were at least partially responsible. Have the personal
strength and integrity to say, “I am responsible,” and then forgive
the other person and let him or her go
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