We feel that when a wrong is committed there is an immediate creation of a record of the act. NOR can it be eradicated through forgiveness. The injured party cannot remove the record, and God will not do so, either, because He created the system of records in the first place. It works just fine for Him. You guessed it, Step Nine.
Forgiveness plays no part whatsoever in absolution.
The fact is that we are not forgiving offenses against ourselves in the sense of removing the need for amendment on the part of the offender. That we cannot do. Only amendment can do that. Our act of forgiving is to clean out ourselves. We remove from ourselves the curse we have imposed upon ourselves to punish the offender.