Appropriate guilt is experienced when we actually do something objectively wrong—for example, exploit another, betray a trust, and so on. […] Inappropriate guilt occurs from believing a lie and is resolved by an application of the truth.

He didn't want to do it, but his wife guilted him into it.

Shame based parents would have guilted him for expressing anger.

We don't have to be manipulated, guilted, coerced, or forced into anything.

But I won't be threatened or bribed or guilted into giving up something that's important to me.

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