Relational Transgression & Defining Forgiveness and Reconciliation (Amber)
This term refers to the highly problematic situations where core rules of a relationship are violated, leaving strong emotional residues.
What are relational transgressions?
This emotional benefit of forgiveness occurs when individuals release negative feelings like anger or resentment.
What is emotional healing?
How many steps are there towards possible reconciliation?
What are 5 steps?
Letting go of anger and resentment after being hurt is called this:
What is Forgiveness?
Alec accidentally spills coffee on his friend’s laptop during a study session, causing damage. He realizes his mistake, apologizes, and offers to pay for repairs. This is an example of what essential step in the forgiveness process.
What is acknowledgement?
According to social norms, failing to help a close friend in a time of need violates this type of expectation.
What is a core relational rule?
Forgiveness helps restore this type of interpersonal connection, often damaged during conflict.
What is trust?
This is the behavioral process where actions are taken to restore a relationship or create a new one following the act of forgiveness.
What is Reconciliation?
Instead of blaming others, moving beyond victimization means taking this kind of approach.
What is a positive or proactive approach?
After gunnysacking feelings of being ignored in her relationship, Arden confronts her partner, who acknowledges his actions, apologizes, and makes an effort to repair their bond. Arden genuinely forgives her partner, and they both move on. This is the ‘harmful feeling’ they addressed in order to move forward.
What is addressing resentment to restore a relationship?
This cognitive bias makes individuals more likely to believe their close friends and partners are always truthful, making them more vulnerable to deception.
What is truth bias?
This personal trait is strengthened when an individual chooses to forgive, enabling better coping with future conflicts.
What is emotional resilience?
This is the definition of conditional forgiveness.
What is forgiveness with verbal or non-verbal conditions?
Forgiving someone in your heart without telling them is called this:
What is private forgiveness?
After a heated argument, Kayden and his best friend Carl go weeks without speaking. One day, Kayden walks up to Carl and asks about hanging out over the weekend which leaves Carl confused, considering they haven’t spoken since he hurt Kayden’s feelings during their argument. Kayden is demonstrating a type of forgiveness where one individual decides to forgive in their heart but may not tell the other person.
What is private forgiveness?
This is the cognitive process of letting go of feelings of revenge and retaliation, but it does not necessarily mean restoring the relationship.
What is forgiveness?
This is the long-term effect of forgiveness in terms of reducing the likelihood of future conflicts between individuals.
What is improved communication?
This is the fourth level of forgiveness.
What is forgiving because they are like me?
When forgiving someone, it's important to set these to protect yourself.
What are boundaries?
James said that his best friend, Heather “stole” his business idea and pitched it in a staff meeting. When James confronted Heather, she apologized. James accepted her apology and reemphasized the things that hurt him, agreeing to ultimately move forward if they both understood what caused the predicament. This is an example of James setting ? to protect himself and his feelings.
What are boundaries?
Reconciliation without true forgiveness is often driven by fear and an unhealthy need to preserve a relationship, sometimes at the cost of one's integrity. This term describes such an attempt.
What is compulsive, unconditional, unilateral peacemaking?
Forgiveness reduces this harmful feeling, which can cause stress and negatively affect health.
What is resentment?
The relation is recreated. This is ? kind of reconciliation?
What is genuine reconciliation?
Forgiving isn’t instant—it happens in which three steps?
What are recognizing the hurt, deciding to forgive, and healing?
Tucker and Sully are told to practice open communication. Sully, who feels betrayed by Tucker, wants to work through their difficulties with the help of HOW MANY phases of forgiveness.
What are five phases (levels)?