THE FUSE

I have been studying forgiveness for over 40 years. During that time, I have conducted many studies of people traumatized by others' unjust actions. Such injustice against a person can lead to anger, then to a more abiding sense of deep anger that we call resentment, and eventually to anxiety and even depression. For example, Reed and Enright (2006) found that emotionally abused women in marriage ended up with depression and did not like themselves.