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Sometimes you have been hurt and you can't even begin to think about forgiving that person.

All you can think about is how wrong do you feel.

But what if you were on the other end of that situation? What

if someone else won't forgive you? I'm John Fuller along with Dr. Greg

Smalley and his wife Aaron and Greg let's go ahead and contextualize this for

marriage what happens in the relationship a husband isn't willing to forgive his wife

or vice versa. Yeah it really creates a nasty domino effect.

So one domino is resentment, begins to build,

which bangs into the next domino, which is bitterness.

That leads to really that couple existing kind of

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