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Article: The role of adult attachment style in forgiveness following an interpersonal offense.
- Article from:
- Journal of Counseling and Development
- Article date:
- September 22, 2006
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The ability to create and maintain intimate, stable, and mutually satisfying relationships is one of the most important tasks in adult personality development (Blatt & Blass, 1995). The achievement of a meaningful and satisfying interpersonal life requires the development of a number of traits, including a capacity for trust and cooperation (K. N. Levy & Blatt, 1999). In addition to these positive traits, partners in an intimate relationship must also possess the ability to tolerate, cope with, and work through the inevitable mistakes and shortcomings of their partner. Forgiveness is one response that allows relationships to continue, despite mistakes, betrayals, or ...