The forgiving and reconciling through experiencing empathy (FREE) model is a forgiveness based intervention used with the hope-focused couple approach (Ripley & Worthington, 2014). Using decades of research, the authors discovered the more time a person spends trying to forgive others, the more forgiveness they will experience. Using healthy coping methods such as accepting that life is unfair at times or turning the matter over to God for divine justice can increase resilience and lead to greater forgiveness (Ripley & Worthington, 2014). This is important because it involves deciding to forgive and slowly coming to emotional forgiveness by replacing unforgiveness with healthy emotions such as empathy, compassion, sympathy, and love for another.