‘Forgiveness is too easy,’ I say, and I’m not quite sure what I mean, so I wait for more words to come to explain it to myself. ‘It’s easy to forgive when you haven’t really acknowledged what happened. I’ve spent my whole life forgiving them. I wanted to forgive them. I did forgive them. You get abused, and you don’t want to cause a fuss. You don’t hit back. You don’t lash out. You just take it. You blame yourself, rather than them. You don’t want to hate them. At the end of the day, you just want them to stop hurting you. And you want them to love you...’
