Your ability to forgive grows stronger when you accept the gifts of love your partner offers.\u00c2\u00a0 At the very least this means accepting that your relationship will not last forever.\u00c2\u00a0 This also means that you should glorify any and all experiences you have of love.\u00c2\u00a0 One way to do this is to understand that love is a precious gift and to be grateful for the fact that you were given it, even if it did not last.\u00c2\u00a0 One of the tragedies I see in my work is people discounting past love because it did not last.\u00c2\u00a0 They are unable to take joy in the love they shared because that love ended.\u00c2\u00a0 I have had numerous people tell me that their marriage of twenty years was a sham because after fifteen years their partner had an affair.\u00c2\u00a0 Their pain was understandable, but it minimized the fact that the love in their lives was majestic and a blessing no matter how long it lasted.<\/p>\n
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