{"id":381,"date":"2008-02-20T00:09:06","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T04:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2008\/02\/20\/you-always-have-the-choice-to-forgive\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T23:33:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T03:33:37","slug":"you-always-have-the-choice-to-forgive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=381","title":{"rendered":"You Always Have the Choice to Forgive."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember that when you have a committed love partner, you always have the choice to forgive&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>If you approach your relationship with the understanding that things will sometimes go wrong and that you are ready with forgiveness, you will become a more powerful partner.\u00a0 As you forgive, you begin to reframe the way you discuss your relationship.\u00a0 You will find yourself telling stories of heroic understanding and unruffled self-acceptance instead of stories of grief and resentment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Dr. Fred Luskin, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/forgive_for_love.html\">Forgive for Love<\/a>, <\/em>p. 76<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember that when you have a committed love partner, you always have the choice to forgive&#8230;. If you approach your relationship with the understanding that things will sometimes go wrong and that you are ready with forgiveness, you will become a more powerful partner.\u00a0 As you forgive, you begin to reframe the way you discuss [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forgiveness","category-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381","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=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10212,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions\/10212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}