Oh, and I had both acted act via anger, and spoken.

It was a cycle.

I do firmly believe that if we can't show this: "Do we and the others involved (kids, family, etc), have it within US to forgive, wholly, completely, and allow them back in, with unconditional love? Letting go of the past behavior?"

They will not be able to risk/trust doing this: "allow themselves to be forgiven and accepted back. To do the work, face the pain?"


In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. - Albert Camus

Uncertainty is the very condition which impels people to unfold their powers.-Eric Fromm