Just because someone is in counseling or therapy does not make them a counselor or therapist. Why do they feel the need to try their hand at it on their friends and family?

Jill

Forgive and Forget?

How do you get past the hurt when you've been betrayed? Can you really ever trust that person again?

Forgive and forget.... We've all heard it a million times. The forgiving I can do, it's the forgetting part I'm struggling with.

I just think that betrayal takes ahold of a relationship and basically strangles it to death. That's how I feel. Like I'm choking on every word I say to him because I want to feel what I'm saying, but I don't. Maybe with time it'll get better. Or maybe it'll get worse. I am one that tends to dwell on things which would lead me to believe the latter. I want to be optimistic and believe this person could love me enough to change and never do this to me again. I really, really, really want to.

I'm not quite there yet though. I'm still dwelling on the past. This changes the memories I had in so many ways. The good has turned ugly in my head.

So, where do I go from here? I'm just letting God take the lead on that. This is just a brief therapy session by way of blog.... Any constructive advice would be appreciated.

I've got a thousand other good things on my plate to keep me busy though. I'll get into those things on my next blog (which will be coming in a more timely fashion than this one).

Jill