Holding grudges?

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I hold on to grudges for years... not even willingly I think.

My question is, do others do this and if so what do you do to let it go?

I don't really hold grudges.

I don't do anything to let them go, I just don't hold onto them to begin with, I cannot be bothered to put in the energy to hold a grudge.

Oh yes, I do hold grudges for years.

Usually for a few days, but then I forget about it. Well not totally, I have plenty of people on my hit list, but I don't actively make an effort to hit people whose names are on the list.

I'll hold a grudge for a week and than I'll move on.

I used to hold on to them for years! These days, about a couple of days, then my anger fades.

Ditto.

I waste my time on all kinds of pointless obsessive/paranoid thinking, grudges are just too much effort on top of all that rubbish.

I don't hold grudges in a typical way.
If someone does something to wrong me intentionally, then it's easy to forgive and forget, especially since these things are brought up and easy to rationalise.
However, say, if someone sits in my seat, even though it's definitely my seat, even though I am not necessarily angry at them (Because I know they do not have the intention of upsetting me, or at least I make that assumption), it's something that bothers me a little bit and makes me uncomfortable around them. Because it's not something that can be brought up and spoken of without them thinking of you as being too critical. Soooo it can never be rationalised, and I will enver know what they were thinking.

Sort of. I remember things that people have done to upset for years and years, but I don't really hold it against them. If I become upset I will suddenly remember all these "grudges" and hold it against people, but I still never actively bring them up, it all just stays in my thoughts.

I hold grudges like there's no tomorrow. Also, I don't do s**t to let it go. Let me tell you why.
The why is that I don't care. If people have wronged me, I se no reason to hold them near. Ever. No reason what so ever. This goes for as close family as my mother and father as well. I know this by experience. i will turn my back and walk away. No final words. No fancy super-hero exit. I am just gone.
I'd still ike to counter-act that a bit. A few years ago, I understood that my mother had no clue what so ever. So I told her about everything. I mean everything from my life. She cried a lot, and we sort of made up a bit. She is still not any smarter, but miracles doesn't work. No matter. She told me a while back that she has learned that there are more important things in life than things and money.

We get along today.

I think what I am trying to say is that, for me, it worked wonders to not try to adapt all the time, like AS' usually does.
Be yourself. But be sure you can handle the worst possible outcome if you dare to try the confrontational line.

Yes I hold grudges when people have done me wrong and then I won't have anything to do with them again, if I can help it.

Oh yes! Fire and brimstone to those who have ever slighted me.

yeah I hold grudges. I generally forgive people easily but when they make repeat offences and are too arrogant to realise the problem then things can get ugly.

I'm terrible with grudges. The anger I feel over events of the past can sometimes be so intense that I'm reduced to swearing and hitting things, even weeks or months after the original incident.

Yes, well said, and I am the same. I have a 'scorched earth' policy - most of the time I'm willing to throw the baby, bathwater and bathroom out if it means justice be done. And I can't help it, I've tried forgiving people but it just doesn't work. The only thing that works is if they suddenly apologise out of the blue, of their own volition - this is how one of my brothers and I finally came to terms. Otherwise... it's the hit-list, and the day of reckoning.

I hold as much grudges against other people as I hold grudges against myself.It evens itself out.