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Originally Posted by comrademoomoo
What you all seem to be describing is resolution, an internal process which does not necessarily require the other. This is quite distinct from forgiveness which is relational by nature.
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I agree with this. What many people are describing above sounds like a healthy internal process, but it doesn't sound like the more traditional/common definitions of "forgiveness," at least the ones I'm familiar with. So it seems like we're arguing about concepts, but mostly I think we're arguing about semantics.
Based on the definitions I'm still finding in dictionaries and on-line, and the cultural and religious connotations of the term forgiveness, I'm in no hurry to adopt it to describe this internal process, but I understand that for others it has evolved to mean this.