I was very intentionally NOT mean, and my tone was matter-of-fact. I never yelled, but I didn't lower my voice when we were in a group of people. Jane did WAY more bullying than that. I cannot even begin to describe how much pain and anguish I endured AND I really was considering suicide for most of that 12-year period, which I told her.
Jane got upset and cried, and she tried to apologize, but I didn't care. Nothing will undo what she did, and an apology is so disproportionate to the damage she inflicted. I told her this.
You don't owe her forgiveness if you don't feel it. But you also don't owe her continued suffering, or a lesson about how inadequate her apology was given the way she hurt you.
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