She is inventing crimes for me, to justify her actions. Because I am the bad guy, no regret on her part.
See? See how handy vilification can be? Simple. Easy. Cleans up any mess.
I know she's inventing things to justify her actions. However, from reading your thread she does not sound unintelligent. If she's introspective at all, on some level she's aware what she's doing. She may not know why. It's like a form of self sabotage. for example, I say I want to lose weight and then go and stick a cupcake in my mouth. Then on top of that beat myself up mentally. At some point I need to look at what that cupcake is doing for me int that moment that allows me to sacrifice my larger goal. I really don't think I'm being overly optimistic to think that at some point most people look at this stuff. That's when the regret comes in. Maybe my age is showing here. I don't know.