Thank you for answering my previous question, “Can forgiveness occur without an apology and, if so, how?” I now understand about forgiving as unconditional, meaning that the other does not have to apologize for me to go ahead and forgive.  Yet, I really want that apology.  Can you offer some insight into this for me, why I still want that apology even though I can forgive unconditionally?

I have written an essay on this very topic on my Psychology Today website.  Here is a link to that essay entitled, Why Is It So Hard to Forgive a Person Who Does Not Apologize?:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-forgiving-life/202512/why-is-it-so-hard-to-forgive-a-person-who-does-not-apologize

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