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If you look at the cognitive dissonance theory you'd understand why this is.
People often have a set-view of themselves, and to reinforce this view (minimize cognitive dissonance) they only remember things which proves this view of themselves.
He's just protecting his ego and not making concessions which is what relationships are all about.
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“In depression . . . faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is the...feeling felt as truth...that no remedy will come -- not in a day, an hour, a month, or a minute. . . . It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.”-William Styron
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