If you're forgiven, do you still need to compensate for them forever?

[Anonymous]

If you hurt someone, thought they would never forgive you but they did; do you still need to compensate for them forever?

ex: going out of your way and sometimes inviting them for dinner and doing special things for them endlessly. Within you... you still feel the need to make it up to them.

Do you need to do that or don't once forgiven? Is there a point you need to stop doing it or are you forced to do that forever since you were forgiven?

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+1 y

Ok so you're absolved from their hurt, their anger, whatever bad feelings they held towards you in the beginning but now it's like you feel guilt forever and forever feel the need to make it up to them.

[petitedollbabee]

Depends on the mistake, how severe it was. If it was as simple as a lie or accidentally hitting someone, then no. But if it was severe, for example, accidentally killing someone they know, then yes. An apology isn’t enough to atone for that.

[Asker]

Not murder, definitely not that. I was referring to destroying someone's initial trust on you such as a friend catching you talking trash behind their backs, stealing from a close member or cheating on a boyfriend with his best friend and him catching them both in the middle of sex.
This is just a general question. If a person did any of those and somehow got forgiven, then they have to forever make it up to them for endless years?

[petitedollbabee]

No, they don’t, because those aren’t severe enough situations, they don’t require a life long apology.

[slatyb]

No, you don't.