Forgiving your parents doesn’t mean what they did was fine. It means you’re done carrying it alone.

Letting go of something is not the same as saying it was acceptable. People stall here for years, because forgiving feels like signing a statement that what happened was fine, and they are not willing to sign it. They do not have to. The release is about who carries the weight from now on, not about re-describing the past as something better than it was.

If you are carrying something from them, tell one person you trust this week. Not to build a case. Just so the weight stops being yours alone to hold up.