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The Importance of Blame
The impulse to blame is deeply human, right? Like when people hurt us or relationships reach a conflict point, like our minds will do anything to avoid the discomfort that those situations create. In most cases, the easiest way to avoid that pain is to externalize it. When you internalize something, what we're really doing is bearing the burden of the negative experience in its entirety. That is not any better than blaming other people. It's just as toxic and sometimes just as dysfunctional, even though we don't always recognize it as problematic.