Amazing coincidence, Both my Mom and my brother called me last week regretting things that happened over 40 years ago. I'm not joking. I told my Mom, you know we all did what we thought was right, we may not remember the why but with what we knew at the time we did the best we could. I added that any one who thinks they know best how to raise kids hasn't had any. I think she cried.
My brother brought up an incident where we were fighting over a bicycle and he punched me in the nose.
I told him my nose was too pointed anyway and that we were kids.
Personally, I have so many regrets and embarrassing moments that there is no way I could make them up. I ask God for forgiveness and thank him each day for what I have and what he has protected me from even though I have fallen short. I believe, as my brother said, God wants us to remember these things so that we hopefully won't repeat them. Maybe better yet, so your kids want repeat them of folks you love.
The only thing I will tell you is this. What you mention isn't anything, but maybe only to you. I've done much much worse. Those things you talk of can be corrected with some effort. Forgive yourself and move on.
I like what Texasmom said, these are the things that make us who we are today. The fact you understand what has happened and that you have a conscious shows the decent person you have become.
