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3 Reasons Why Forgiveness is so Hard… Let’s recap challenges often faced when struggling to forgive someone who has hurt you. First, forgiveness is widely misunderstood. When we don’t fully understand what forgiveness is and is not, it will only make it more difficult to move forward with forgiveness.
Forgiveness is difficult in part because evolution has endowed us with the psychological motivation to avoid being exploited by others, and one of the easiest ways to prevent exploitation is to hit back or simply avoid the exploiter. Apr 1 2019
However, that doesn’t mean that the injured person must remain enslaved by their injury. To effectively overcome this barrier to forgiveness we need to recognise that we can, and should, forgive even as we maintain appropriate trust boundaries. Forgiveness is hard, especially when these forgiveness misunderstandings play into our thinking.
Forgiveness is emotionally difficult because evolution has endowed us with the psychological motivation to avoid being exploited by others, and the easiest way to prevent exploitation is to hit back or simply avoid the exploiter.