There's More to Forgiveness Than Saying the Words

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🗓️ 30 January 2026

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Sandrea learns why simply deciding to forgive her mother for the years of abuse won't necessarily give her the peace she's searching for. Got a dilemma? Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com - Listen to The Dr. Laura Program daily on SiriusXM Triumph 123.

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0:23.4	Sandra.
0:24.0	Okay.
0:24.6	Welcome to the program.
0:26.6	Hi.
0:26.9	How are you?
0:27.2	How can I help?
0:30.1	I've had a really difficult relationship with my mother, my entire life.
0:35.7	In what form?
0:44.7	In what form has that taken your whole life um a lot of emotional physical abuse when I was younger and emotional abuse um it's what's emotional abuse what did she do
0:52.9	that was emotional abuse? Tell me. One example. I was walking home from school with a friend, got beat up on the way home, which is really traumatic for me. When I got home, instead of the mother being like, oh, my God, are you okay? She beat me up also.
1:13.6	So because I was late.
1:16.1	This was before cell phones.
1:17.6	I mean, just that's one example.
1:21.1	She would gift me something.
1:24.2	And then three or four weeks later, it would be in my room because it was gifted it.
1:30.5	You know, if an adult takes a kid who's been beaten up and beats them up some more,
1:38.2	that person is either on drugs, has a really weird brain tumor, which is causing erratic behavior, or they're
1:46.2	just mean and evil. So when you say you haven't had a good relationship your whole lot, you can't
1:52.1	have a good relationship with somebody. I guess she would have died of the brain tumor. We would
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