You don’t have to hurt back.

Don’t attempt to justify whatever hurt you did, for that will serve to keep open your wounds.  Don’t say, “I only hurt you because you hurt me.”  Healing requires acceptance of the fact that You don’t have to hurt back, indeed that hurting back only hurts you more.

— Steven Stosny, You Don’t Have to Take It Anymore, p. 248

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