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Why forgiveness feels impossible when your abuser never changed

My therapist says I need to forgive my father but he never apologized and he is still the same person and I do not understand why I have to be the bigger person.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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You are being asked to heal from wounds that are still being inflicted.

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