How To Free Yourself With Forgiveness—Even If You'll Never Get An Apology
Suffering from emotional pain, whether due to betrayal or wrongdoing by a parent, spouse, sibling, or friend, can feel like constantly toting around a weighty amount of baggage. There doesn’t seem to be any respite from the pain, and no emotional exit ramp in sight you can take to suddenly feel better. Your feelings are constantly with you. This individual wounded you profoundly, and maybe someday in the future they’ll acknowledge their actions. Or maybe they won’t.
A large part of life is realizing that while we cannot control the actions of others, we can control how we respond to them. In the midst of this pain, forgiveness might be the furthest thing from our minds. We’re not only sad, we’re angry. We’d rather get even than do them the favor of forgiveness. But forgiveness benefits our healing process more than we might initially think. In fact, freeing ourselves with forgiveness – even if we never get an apology – might be the best thing we can do for ourselves.