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Chuck Bryant

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Forgiveness Works

And that if you forgive them but don't tell them or you still avoid them afterward where it's like, hey, I forgive you, but good luck with the rest of your life.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Forgiveness Works

You're not in my life anymore.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Forgiveness Works

That to some psychologists, not all,

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Forgiveness Works

Some psychologists say that's not genuine forgiveness.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Forgiveness Works

That's akin to like what you were saying, which is letting go of anger and moving on, but not really actually forgiving.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Forgiveness Works

I still say it's forgiving.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Forgiveness Works

I'm not one of the psychologists.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Forgiveness Works

And it's very much debated for sure.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Forgiveness Works

But then that also leads to another point too, that if you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you forget.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Forgiveness Works

And that's not part and parcel to it.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Forgiveness Works

Forgiving doesn't mean forgetting.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Forgiveness Works

You can forget, but...

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Forgiveness Works

I'm actually really good at that kind of thing where like I forgive because it just โ€“ unless it was a really huge wrong, it just kind of fades from my memory fairly easily and I don't dwell on it.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Forgiveness Works

So it can go hand in hand.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Forgiveness Works

But if you've been deeply wronged by somebody where you're actually going through the process of forgiving, which we'll talk about, and it is a โ€“ it's a deliberate โ€“

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Forgiveness Works

step that you're taking toward finding peace with yourself in your life again, then you know very well what that wrong was and you're not going to forget it.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Forgiveness Works

But eventually the aim is that you will have divorced the emotional attachment from that memory of that wrong.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Forgiveness Works

to where it becomes akin to like a movie you saw once or a trip you took once.