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Is There a Guilt Response?
Guilt is a signal in these situations that I have been emotionally coerced. It's like Pavlov's dog experiments where he got them to salivate at the sound of a bell before he even gave them food. Once you get that idea maybe guilt is not a conscience thing really or it's not a morality thing, it is a sign that someone has tried to emotionally coerce me. Then you can decide, do I want to be coerced? Do I want to make dad the most important thing and say to my son, well, sorry, honey, dad didn't come today until six o'clock,. so we missed our reservation at the bouncy house.