Hi February13, I found that I could forgive easy enough but to forget, that will take a long time. My AD had it made, never to want or need, it was always there, except to ask mom for money to buy Heroin, that's a lie that happened over and over. I don't take the bait anymore. She has been sober 10 weeks, but the memory of the lies will live in my mind forever, hopefully locked in, never to come out to verbally attack my daughter when emotions get rough. Addiction is here to stay, but we will keep it locked up and hopefully never trigger it to come bouncing out and start this nightmare are all over again. TF