In marriage—one that manages to stay together—that’s what happens: someone apologizes, and what are you going to do? Hold your resentment against him forever? Maybe for a night, maybe you’re still pissed off when you click off the light for sleep. But the only other option, other than forgiveness, is letting your resentment seep down into you, into your pores, into your veins, eventually into the foundation that you built together, and that undoes everything.
