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Why forgiveness sometimes feels impossible

My father abused me as a child and now he is dying and wants to reconcile but I feel nothing but anger and emptiness.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The demand for reconciliation conflicts with authentic emotional truth and creates secondary suffering about the inability to forgive.

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