Punishment vs Forgiveness

It feels wrong to forgive those who have harmed us in the worst possible ways but maybe forgiveness has nothing to do with our abusers.

What if we can forgive and punish at the same time.

What if we make out abusers responsible for their actions? and have our justice systems deal with it but at the same time, we can free ourselves rom the emotional trauma of this attachment?

We are only limited by what we say we are limited by…