{"id":334,"date":"2008-01-24T23:00:44","date_gmt":"2008-01-25T03:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2008\/01\/24\/necessary-for-healing\/"},"modified":"2008-01-24T23:00:44","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T03:00:44","slug":"necessary-for-healing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=334","title":{"rendered":"Necessary for Healing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forgiveness can wrap up the grief, but it does not prevent the inevitable and necessary suffering.\u00c2\u00a0 When there is a serious injury or loss, there is no way to avoid pain.\u00c2\u00a0 If you want to have a satisfactory future, you will need to feel the loss and then let go of the hurt it has caused you.\u00c2\u00a0 You need to forgive.<\/p>\n<p>Even if you decide to divorce after a betrayal, you will still need to forgive&#8230;.\u00c2\u00a0 When you forgive, you are able to be at peace even though rejection, disloyalty, and dishonesty have been a part of your life.<\/p>\n<p>Your best chance for successful future relationships and overall happiness is to forgive your former partner.\u00c2\u00a0 Forgiveness is not a substitute for grief, nor does it preclude the pain caused by your partner&#8217;s cheating.\u00c2\u00a0 But it does gently allow your grief to ebb so that you can move on and live a successful life.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Dr. Fred Luskin, <em>Forgive for Love, <\/em>p. 21<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forgiveness can wrap up the grief, but it does not prevent the inevitable and necessary suffering.\u00c2\u00a0 When there is a serious injury or loss, there is no way to avoid pain.\u00c2\u00a0 If you want to have a satisfactory future, you will need to feel the loss and then let go of the hurt it has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,21,9,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forgiveness","category-healing","category-life","category-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}