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My girlfriend cheated on me initially but I forgave her because that time she was genuinely sorry and we were not that serious.

But now she cheated on me a second time and expect me to forgive her a second time. I did tell her that I forgive her but in reality I didn't. I slept with her sister last week ( her sister knows what she did to me and she is on my side ) and her sister and I have always had a little chemistry but I never acted upon it because I wasn't a cheater

So do you guys think what I did was reasonable or was I in the wrong? My girlfriend found out I slept with her sister so we broke up and now I am thinking of making her sister my girlfriend. They both had a fight as well. What do you think , is this cool?

just to be clear , I am not gonna date her sister just because I want revenge , I had my revenge. I wanna date her because :

1. I am genuinely attracted to her more now that I found my girlfriend never really loved me
2. I want a rebound

I was young and stupid plus a bit drunk at the time. I know I am in the wrong and I hate myself everyday for it. I tried killing myself and friends have told me to forgive myself but I hurt someone.

My stepdad did this to my mom, and she hasn't been able to forgive him completely because it implied that she's loose and unfaithful. This was back in the mid 90s. But I think my mom was also partly to blame because of her odd, rebellious behavior.

Just a FYI forgiveness is not forgetting about what someone did. Also it doesn’t require an apology from the other person. It’s letting go of a grudge and literally telling the person they no longer have power over you.

My biggest forgiveness test was when an ex girlfriend did something completely unexpected and heinously callous to me a few years ago. I’m rarely taken by surprise. But how she treated me after a very serious issue came up absolutely blindsided me. Never in a million years I would of thought she would treated me the way she did

For a while I thought she was going to think it over and reach out & apologize for it. But she didn’t. After agonizing about the issue for over 2 years I finally sent her a very carefully email about what she did, how it hurt me but I forgave her. That didn’t magically fix everything but I felt a sense of personal liberation. I felt stronger and more at peace afterwards.

Now this isn’t just about relationships but society in general. Wanting revenge is very human. No one wants to be a push over. But often there is nothing you can (legally) do to get even. I was virtually powerless to get back my ex about how she treated me given the incident. Not matter how much I fantasized about some method to make her feel the pain I felt I had to painfully accept there was nothing I could do.

But there are other non romantic scenarios as well. White people can’t undo the past sins of slavery and Jim Crowe. Men can’t undo the past oppression women endured. History is history and you can only move forward.

But with all the hate and vitriol going on in the world right now I have yet to see any community leader ask their followers to forgive past transgressions. You can do that and at the same make changes for a better future. If someone really had the guts to propose that idea I think it would catch a lot of people off guard. It would ultimately bring the healing our nation so badly needs right now.