When someone doesn’t care about harming you they’ll care even less about apologizing for harming you. Waiting around for accountability and justice from your abuser often is as ineffective and unsatisfying as rummaging through the shrapnel trying to reassemble a bomb that’s already exploded long ago.

Healing and living a happy, successful life doesn’t need to include closure from abuse. The person who hurt you doesn’t care about your closure. Your recovery from abuse is all about you. So focus on empowering you without the closure that will never arrive.

You’re strong. You’ve got this.

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