dolorosa_12: (emily)
a million times a trillion more ([personal profile] dolorosa_12) wrote 2020-04-26 03:45 pm (UTC)

It's a very dangerous trope too, because it reinforces the idea that you're supposed to forgive family at all costs.

Yes, exactly. Like you I come from a very close and caring family, but not everyone does, as you say. Narratives of forgiveness at all cost seem to push the line that refusing to forgive people is more unforgivable and damaging than the damage those people did in the first place.

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