When forgiveness experts talk in binary language (’You either forgive the wrongdoer or you are a prisoner of your own anger and hate’), they are collapsing the messy complexity of human emotions into a simplistic dichotomous equation.
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Celebrating My (Gay) Divorce
By Steven Petrow — 2019
Marriage equality means divorce equality—and I feel pride, as well as sadness, about my split from my husband.
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