T. is in her late 40s, transitioning out of marriage when she meets a guy on a dating app and as she says - kaboom - madly in love. She thinks it’s heading toward a Brady Bunch melding of families but instead one of her older sons saves her life after this new man cheats and gaslights her, then beats her in her own home on Mother’s Day Weekend. She’s here to release herself from the guilt of still being connected with him, and to apologize to her kids for exposing them to it all. She’s made incredible progress, but she knows she can’t simply erase him from her life. I discuss my own cord cutting experience with my marriage, and we talk in depth about the three faces of forgiveness as the tool that may have enough power to unlock the rest of the healing