The Real Reason You Can’t Let Go of Your Past | Rewind
Love Life With Matthew Hussey
Matthew Hussey
4.7 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
What’s your biggest regret in life? Is it a mistake you continue to dwell on? A path you realize you should’ve taken? A person you wish you hadn’t given so much time to?
And if you had the opportunity, would you go back in time and do something differently? Or would you take this Cormac McCarthy quote to heart: “You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from”? Regret is more than a sad, wistful daydream. It can cause us a tremendous amount of pain today and actually prevent us from enjoying our lives.
If you’re holding on to any kind of regret, you can’t miss this episode.
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| 0:00.0 | Steve, we're talking about dwelling on our mistakes. |
| 0:08.0 | I would say to anyone out there, can you call something to mind right now that you have |
| 0:15.3 | as a regret? |
| 0:17.5 | It's very easy for regret to make us beat ourselves up and create a genuine sense of self-loathing |
| 0:28.6 | to the point where it's truly difficult to connect with ourselves in a positive way |
| 0:34.7 | and regret can also make us very resentful and angry towards the world. |
| 0:41.5 | You know, I can easily bring to mind people that I'm aware of in my life |
| 0:46.7 | who were in a relationship for many years |
| 0:50.4 | and got to the point where they realized that they had to get out of it, but then looked |
| 0:59.5 | back on the years where they'd known something was deeply wrong, years where they knew that |
| 1:04.9 | they had stayed with the wrong person, and are now finding themselves oscillating between anger towards that person or towards |
| 1:15.8 | the opposite sex in general and anger towards themselves for allowing it to happen. |
| 1:23.7 | So these things can cause a tremendous amount of pain for us in the present. They can cause an immense |
| 1:29.7 | amount of trauma and they really can stop us from enjoying our lives in the present day. So I wanted to |
| 1:38.4 | talk about this today and get into it. Not necessarily as a specific topic about our dating lives, although many of our |
| 1:47.7 | regrets may intersect with our love lives, but as a general theme that I know will be affecting |
| 1:54.9 | a lot of listeners out there of this podcast. Steve, what are your thoughts on regret as a concept? |
| 2:02.3 | Well, let me just turn this around one moment. |
| 2:04.6 | Does Matthew Hussey have regrets? |
| 2:10.3 | Yes. |
| 2:12.9 | Yes. |
| 2:14.3 | You know, the quick answer is yes. |
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