A cheating spouse, could you offer forgiveness?
Do you think you could ever forgive your spouse for cheating on you? If there anything s/he could say to make it work again?
Categories: Marriage & Divorce Tags: Cheating Spouse, Forgiveness, Spouse Cheating
Hahli
i don’t think i could forgive.
some people could.
i just know that once something like that happens the trust is gone. without trust, you are really back to square one. in addition, i could rationalize all sorts of behaviors if my spouse did this.
i can forgive many things, but i’m so loyal, i don’t think i could forgive a cheater.
Haapakoski
eventually being a Christian i would forgive him, but i could never forget what he had done. i wouldn’t be able to stay with him cause i don’t think i could ever bring myself to trust him again.
Jukka
Well first of all it isn’t the saying that would convince me. It would be the doing. How could he show me that he’s sincere? And that takes time.
I think I could forgive a transgression…provided I wasn’t exposed to STD’s. I think it would also depend on the level of emotional intimacy he had with the other woman. If it was deep that may be a deal breaker.
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Jesse
Forgivness yes, forget never. It takes lots of work on both parts to make it work. You just need to deceide if it is worth it or not, if your love can withstand something like this.
Hynninen
Yes. The reason why? it depends on your own definition of cheating, some think cheating is intellectual, some think its emotional, most think it is physical. However, forgiveness is the first step to healing, if we carry the burden of hurt that someone has laden us with, they win. I wouldn’t say forget, but forgive definitely; and most importantly communicate with each other on why the cheating happened, and don’t forget that both of you talk about how you feel about it.