Forgiveness doesn’t always look like reunion.
It doesn’t always come with a conversation, an apology, or a mutual understanding.

Sometimes, it’s a quiet, sacred act you do alone —
Not to let them back in, but to finally let yourself go free.

💬 “I forgive you, but I choose me.”

I forgive you for walking away.
For not seeing me.
For not showing up when I needed you most.

But I choose not to abandon myself the way you abandoned me.
I choose to stop chasing love that doesn’t know how to hold me.
I choose to stop bleeding for people who wouldn’t even offer a bandage.

I forgive you…
Not because you deserve it,
But because I deserve peace.
Because I’m done carrying wounds that were never mine to keep.

I choose me.
My healing.
My dignity.
My future.
And that choice — is not bitter. It’s beautiful.

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This is how we rise.
With grace, with boundaries, with self-respect.
Not by forgetting what happened — but by remembering who we are.

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