To Forgive and To Forget, Really... how do you do it? Options

Have you had someone really important and beloved to you do something really bad/dissapointing/whatever to you which you simply cannot forgive, not to mention to forget? When in the end you ended up filled with so much hate, mixed with love and resentment no matter what you've tried to really forget and forgive? And the feeling still there like for 2 years as it kept popping into your head even when you were not intentionally want to think and when you least expected it? Well, maybe I'm in a bad mood today, but really... I want to hear your thoughts and experience on dealing with this.

Ah yes, I was forgetting about the trust part, the trouble is that once one person has betrayed your trust, then it is hard to trust people in general for a while in my experience.

The best thing is as we get older, we learn to be less dependent upon others for their opinions and we invest less into them and more into ourselves - such a blessing this is as we get hurt much less often and we know that if we are letting ourselves down then we can change it (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

I have been thinking about being true to ourselves again over the last few days; I think there is a thread for a board somewhere coming out of it LOL

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Mandylion, I love your horse with its dandelion (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)