Becoming a teenager is realising that your parents aren't perfect. Becoming an adult is forgiving them for it.

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Counterpoint:

Becoming an adult is realising you do not have to forgive anyone.

Becoming an adult is realising that family is no excuse for abusive behaviour.

Forgiving someone who has no intention of altering their behaviour is simply asking for it to be repeated.

Becoming an adult is realizing that you don't have to forgive them for it.

Because I and many others would never become adults otherwise.

I want to forgive them, but I'll live the rest of my life this way because of my mom's choices and it's not like she would apologize even if I tied her to a stake and hosted a good old fashioned witch burning, so I just have to live with it.