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When therapy pushes forgiveness you don't want

My therapist says I need to forgive my abusive parents for my own healing, but I don't want to forgive them and I'm angry at being told I should.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Therapeutic frameworks that mandate forgiveness can become another form of pressure to deny legitimate anger.

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