“I’m a spiritual person too. And you know what I’ve found?” Arthur looked at me, waiting for an answer. “Abusive people love to use spirituality and forgiveness to manipulate their victims into accepting more abuse.” “That’s not—” “It’s pretty clever, actually,” I continued. “You can mistreat someone, and then make them feel worse by guilt-tripping and shaming them for the perfectly valid anger they carry. But real forgiveness does not require reconciliation or contact of any kind.”
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