Understanding Without Excusing
🤔 Freeing yourself from what has captured others
If you knew what they were going through, you wouldn't excuse their behavior, but you would understand it. You'd be able to draw a line from their trauma to the pain they caused you.
Because, sometimes, a person's unmet needs become their unkept promises. Their lack becomes your loss.
This perspective doesn't turn you into a doormat or empathetic target. It protects you from taking things personally and frees you from the poisonous grip of bitterness. And it invites you to look within and find any roots of unaddressed hurt that might grow to become the pain you cause others.
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