How Can I Forgive You?: The Courage to Forgive, the Freedom Not To
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ISBN: 0060009314 / Publisher: Harper Paperbacks, February 2005
The author of After the Affair challenges the belief that forgiveness is the only appropriate response to violation, proposing a self-affirming alternative that enables readers to overcome the destructive effects of hate without forgiveness while outlining a model for true forgiveness that places responsibility on the offender. Reprint.
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Until now, we have been taught that forgiveness is good for us and that good people forgive. Dr. Spring, a gifted therapist and the award-winning author of After the Affair, proposes a radical, life-affirming alternative that lets us overcome the corrosive effects of hate and get on with our lives—without forgiving. She also offers a powerful and unconventional model for genuine forgiveness—one that asks as much of the offender as it does of us.This bold and healing book offers step-by-step, concrete instructions that help us make peace with others and with ourselves, while answering such crucial questions as these:How do I forgive someone who is unremorseful or dead?When is forgiveness cheap?What is wrong with refusing to forgive?How can the offender earn forgiveness?How do we forgive ourselves for hurting another human being?
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