Karamo coaches a mother and daughter through conflict, arguing that real accountability means listening to the other person's experience without defending your own story. You can acknowledge their truth and still have yours.
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I get that you were a single mother, but you had so much help and you also weren't around to be a single mom, for real. You might have been a single mom because you weren't with my father, but you were never a mom. I mean, that's your opinion. That's a fact. There's a large portion of my life that I was not living with you. You have not always been a mom. Mom, please stop playing. What do you mean? We're here and we're having— Just put this in the past. Yes, I do. I can't get past it. Every single time I try to have a conversation with you, it's the same exact thing. What do you mean?
You get hyper, you start crying. Even though you're saying, I wanna take accountability, I wanna move on, true accountability and truly understanding what your daughter experienced is not negating any story that you think is different than yours. If it's so important for you to heal, Then why is it not just okay to say, "Wow, okay, I hear your truth." Why do you have to defend that?