Resentment
Guide — How Unresolved Hurt Changes a Relationship

When needs go unseen, apologies feel hollow, or repair never arrives, the nervous system keeps score. What looks like ‘negativity’ is often accumulated evidence.

Metabolizing resentment requires truth, accountability, and sometimes boundaries — not positivity alone. Bypassing hurt breeds contempt; honest repair reduces it.

This guide is about hurt that calcifies into ongoing grievance. It is not the primary page for contempt-as-diagnosis (see contempt vs resentment) or for cold drift without a ledger (Emotional Distance).