Posted by henrietta on July 20, 2004, at 20:03:15
In reply to Re: forgiveness, posted by daisym on July 20, 2004, at 19:44:39
yes, you are right.
i don't mean to speak of the REAL unforgiveables.
I mean the smaller things, for which forgiveness is more to the benefit of the forgiver than the forgiven.
i mean forgiving the narcissistic father, the dead mother who couldn't love you....
I can't even forgive them, though I keep struggling to do so. Abuse of another, more serious sort, abuse of magnitude, should not, probably, be forgiven at all.
I don't mean that severe abuse, that real abuse. Please accept my apology for sounding so general, so universal. I only know my own small, though life-crippling ,variety of abuse, which I will spend the rest of my life trying to forgive.
For my own sake, not theirs.
(((daisy)))
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