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This week, sex advice columnist, Dan Savage, addressed a letter from a young woman who discovered her father was watching online father/daughter incest themed pornography while she was temporarily living in his house.
What does forgiveness look like? What does it look like when the betrayal and pain are so deep and powerful? What does it look like when the betrayer is your own brother? Does forgiveness look the same for every incident? Obviously, some things are easier to forgive than others.
In his book Beyond Betrayal, Dr. Richard B. Gartner insists that, "Recovery requires picking up the pieces of your past so that you can see yourself more completely than you ever have. If you don't know how you came to be who you are, your view of yourself will be distorted.
One day at home, when I was an awkward eleven-year-old boy, my brothers and I were playing a good ol' game of Truth or Dare, which really just meant a game of dare. It was a simple game, but being that they were twins and I was five years younger, I was excited to not be left out again.
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