Your apology is not a time for you to explain to me the reasoning behind what you did to offend me or why the offense is not your fault.

Your apology is a time for you to take accountability for the actions you took that hurt or offended me. That’s how forgiveness begins to be earned.

Then with time through positive progression and visible growth and change comes reconciliation.

You don’t say “I’m sorry” then everything is magically better and all wrongs that happened in the past stay in the past.

That’s how you get those toxic relationships where people keep count of wrongs and throw it in your face even though you guys had spoken and agreed to “move past it”.

Moving past things doesn’t fix or heal the hurt. It puts a bandaid on a wound that need surgery. && even after surgery there’s still a recovery time before things are healed.