I am so grateful to have found this thread, as I totally identify with not forgiving myself for past "mistakes."
The answers here have been so compassionate and insightful, and so much like my own experiences, both, as a child in an unhappy, unforgiving home, and later in my attempts to find love and acceptance.
Over the past three years I have secluded myself from relationships of the romantic kind because of the painful consequences of past mistakes, not forgiving myself for foolish behaviors.
Reading the comments here is very helpful to me.
Patty