If there is one thing that really gets my goat (if I had a goat and it could be gotten) it is when you give someone the gift of forgiveness and a brand-new benefit-of-the-doubt only to have them toss it in the gutter by repeating the very boundary violation they apologized for committing in the first place. Most everyone deserves a second chance but a third, a fourth, a tenth?
When does forgiving their lack of respect become a sign of your own lack of respect for self?
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