Forgiveness in love is not the erasure of what happened; it is the decision to stop letting it be the primary fact between two people. It is harder than the word implies — it asks something of the person who was harmed, not the person who caused harm — and it must be distinguished from condoning, forgetting, or remaining in situations that continue to wound. Every tradition has a practice for it, and none of them make it easy.
Each step builds on the last.