Am I wrong for turning my back on my sisters? I don’t want their toxicity touching my life or my children’s lives.

My parents recently died a few months apart. While taking care of my mom’s last wishes, my sister told me that she went to ...

The decision to forgive your mother is complex, and depends on motivations and intentions perhaps more than not. I’m often asked if I’ve forgiven my own mother; the truth is that I haven’t.

DEAR ABBY: I am a 30-year-old woman who can’t seem to forgive my mother. For many years I have felt that she doesn’t like me. Every time I have tried to talk to her about it, ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. | Nearly three decades after the murder that tore them apart, the mother and son talk easily now. They laugh over little things. She stands on tiptoes to hug him and whispers ...

Her own mom said she was a bad mother. After her mom visited her, she called her a bad parent. They didn't speak for nine months but eventually forgave each other.

My mother had been fully present with me. Noko returned to Seattle this past spring, 6 ½ months later , to support me through post-partum depression, complicated by sleep deprivation and extreme ...

For the first time in my life, I hung up some pictures of my mom. My 7-year-old son asked if we could. I thought it might be a good way for him to know Grandma Sharon. One was a black and white ...

"I think forgiveness is a personal choice, and there is no yes or no answer. I think that no matter how I or anyone else defines the word forgiveness, to me, it feels like it excuses what was done ...

The decision to forgive, Stephen says, “opened a life for me that I would have never had.” For years Stephen wanted nothing to do with the woman who had caused all of this pain and grief.