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Originally Posted by ScarletPimpernel
Is it still allowed to hurt if you forgive the person? I truly see that this mistake is not her core-self. She, herself, is not bad. And even though breaking my confidentiality is bad, I doubt it will ever happen again. Both her and I are working so it doesn't.
And I still feel hurt. I can't help it. I just feel it. But I'm not letting the hurt control my choices. So I think I'm doing good?
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Yes, you can forgive and still feel hurt. And forgiveness sometimes isn't done once. I remember a rupture I had with my T which really hurt me. After talking about it, she took responsibility and said she had chosen her words really poorly. (It was a loaded phrase a harmful counsellor used on me, my family and others used.)
I forgave her. I chose to stay with her because I saw the whole of our therapeutic relationship, and she wasn't defensive.
A year later, the memory came up again and I had to talk about it again. Another layer of hurt, of "how could you, T?!" Sometimes it returns and hurts too. Not as much but I do hold onto how ruptures have definitely been repaired. Including when I've hurt her feelings.
Eta: I'm really protective of my relationship with my T too. If my unsafe family members knew I'm in therapy or even worse, who is she, I would be very vulnerable in a really bad way. And I know someone who sees my T too and I can't handle hearing that person talking or texting me about our T. I just can't, though it's not that person's fault. It's my stuff.