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Addicted to Hurt
Is it hard for some to forgive because they have become addicted to the hurt? Just as drugs and alcohol are the numbing comfort to an addict’s pain, can pain itself become the drug? The “familiar”, even when destructive, is less frightening than the unfamiliar because staying hurt is easier than being hurt again. The lesser pain is chosen over the greater pain instead of freeing oneself to live free of pain. Fear wins out over freedom. Hurt falsely protects from forgiveness.
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