Expectations and entitlements don't cost a thing except for those who enable it.
Sincere forgiveness isn't colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don't worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time—just like it does for you and me.
We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.
If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.
If you expect nothing from anybody, you're never disappointed.