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My ex and I met about 4-5 years ago when he sat in front of me during our high school graduation by staring at me but we never spoke. Then the following summer, we had gotten the same job. We started interacting with each other all summer, and surprisingly went to the same college. A forever romance right? WRONG. I had ended things because I was being treated like trash like embarrassing us in front of my friends, and he confessed that he cheated on me as well. He apologized for his actions, asked for a second chance, and I gave it to him out of hope.

Then, we finally started having sex which I was hesitant about but I wasn’t sure how else to keep the relationship going. That lasted for about 5-6 months before he ended it saying “I only gave you the time of day so I could say I had sex with this specific ethnicity” and left. He ended up showing at my workplace a couple of years ago, and smiled at me. I didn’t smile back, and it bothered me so I messaged him on another social media account telling him off and he apologized for everything that had happened. I blocked him on that outlet and thought that was it since we’re both in different relationships now. I created this new social media outlet for graduate school and he sent me a friend request on there so I’m not sure if I should accept it or not. What do you think?

Or is that friendship permanently killed? And that person will never trust you ever again nor like you at all?

My boyfriend's adoptive mother was the one talking behind my back for several months. I was friends with that lady. Many things happened and supposedly she's sorry. I'm still hurt that instead of telling me in my face what she doesn't agree or what I'm doing wrong, she smiled in my face and gossiped nasty things about me to family member, her friends and random strangers.

Is it worth giving a person like that a second chance? At this time, my image of that lady is that she's a backstabbing, fake person, a hypocrite, a liar. My boyfriend and someone else claims she is remorseful though and would like to start over. Can that be restored?