https://mormonolympians.org/forgiveness_mormonism Fri, 26 Jun 2015 21:22:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://mormonolympians.org/forgiveness_mormonism#comment-574486 Fri, 26 Jun 2015 21:22:15 +0000 http://www.mormonolympians.org/34/forgiveness-mormonism#comment-574486 I am very distressed over the fact that my 25 year old Mormon granddaughter refuses to forgive her mother for not attending her one year old grand daughters evening birthday party. The mother (my daughter) had a very important business event that affected the success of her business and offered to come in the morning to help set up for the party and was told if you can’t come for the party, don’t come at all. My daughter went to visit on the actual birthday (3 days later) and was literally thrown out of her daughters house. Now my grand daughter says part of the reason she is shunning her mother is that her mother “was never there for her”. My daughter did not work out of the home and spent her life for her kids until an ugly divorce from a controlling, manipulative, abusive man nearly destroyed her life. From that time on my daughters ex husband manipulated controlled the children and tried to poison their minds against their mother. One instance that I know of for a fact with this granddaughter was that he told her if she lived with her mother, he would not pay her college tuition. He also managed to bankrupt my daughter which she eventually climbed out of working and driving 120 mile round trip to attend school and now has a successful business. But my grand daughter can’t accept the fact that her mother couldn’t be there for many of her high school events during the years after the divorce. and I guess the birthday party was the “straw that broke the camels back”. My grand daughter told me she will forgive her mother when she starts to put family first. My daughters business is their livelihood and if it fails for lack of attention they will be broke. My daughter has called my granddaughter numerous times in the past 3 months to ask if she could come visit and her daughter always has some excuse why they cannot. My daughter was the only one in the family who attended the temple wedding, she was there for her grand daughters birth and spent 4 days with my grand daughter after the baby was born, she did many things to help with her daughter’s wedding. What can I do without offending my grand daughter to move her to forgive her mother?

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