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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Often kids in dysfunctional families where shaming played a big part have issues when they’re adults admitting when wrong or saying theyre sorry. It brings forward those same feelings of shame like they’ve done something wrong.  [/quote]

I've heard this before and I'm sure it must be true for some people, but I grew up in a family like this and am big on apologizing. For me, apologizing relieves me of shame I feel for having done something that hurt someone -- if I don't apologize, it eats away at me. I don't understand how refusing to admit you are wrong helps with shame because don't you know you've done something wrong? If I accidentally run over my neighbors flowerbeds with my car, refusing to admit that I did it, or refusing to admit it was bad, doesn't change the fact that I KNOW I did it and that of course it was bad.

I feel like most people who refuse to apology are very convinced of their own goodness/correctness. It's like they can't admit fault because they can't accept a scenario where they could be at fault. Which seems like the opposite of shame.[/quote]

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