She was asking about the rules of the world she was going to grow up in.

“Loving someone does not mean you throw away your boundaries,” I told her.

“And forgiveness never requires you to give an unsafe person another chance to hurt you.

Sometimes you can forgive someone in your heart, so that the anger stops poisoning you, and still keep them all the way out of your life, so that they can never harm you again.

Those are two different things, and you’re allowed to do the first without ever doing the second.” Hannah nodded, thoughtfully, and went back to her schoolwork at the table.