Do you believe in second chances??

Yup, I agree with you.:)

I am sorry to hear you have been taken advantage of. It sounds like you have a kind heart! I think one just gets a feeling in their gut when they know they have had enough. When it comes to parents and loved ones making mistakes, you have to wonder if those people were directly trying to hurt you. If they were, then a second chance should be out of the question! However, if the person's actions indirectly hurt you, the relationship should be kept!

I can totally understand where your reasoning comes from. We are born alone and die alone and in between we try to stay happy! But what makes me the happiest is to put another person's feelings before my own. So, if someone I love were to 'put their happiness first, [at] the expense of hurting [me]', I can blame them and would be very upset. This world is too cut throat!

what's annoying is that you yourself is putting their happiness before yours and yet they don't seem to be doing the same for you. I hate it when that happens to me, but I guess we just have to live with it

I agree. It hurts when love is not reciprocated. But at the end of the day, you are the better person! It takes a strong person love without expecting anything back!

Very true but people lie and do you wrong again.

That is how I feel about that also.

Thanks for the warm welcome! I have read several comments you have posted and I like the way you think! Again, I have to agree with you on this one! I cannot forgive a cheater! My being won't even allow me. I will never live that down and would end up eating myself alive. I have to admit that I do not like a liar or a thief either! If I catch you taking from me, we are done! I am such a generous person, that no one should ever feel the need to take more from me! When it comes to a lie, I suppose it would depend. I take the person's intentions into consideration. If they were lying to spare my feelings, I may have to let that one go. But if a friend or loved one were to lie to me for their own personal benefit, I would be deeply hurt.

My used to be best friend stole or embezzled $700 from me a few years ago. I had some extra money in my checking account. I was sick for several months and I allowed her to have access to my checking account.. she helped herself to $700 without telling me. I discovered it later and asked for it back and she said she didn't have it... I walked out of her life for about 4 years.. I came back and knocked on her door... I decided that I wasn't going to let money or her stealing it stand in the way of our friendship. Things were great for awhile, but we gradually lost contact... I gave her a second chance.. but I'd never do it again... I'd never have anyone but family handle my affairs if anything else were to happen to me. I still love her, but I don't see her.

What a shame that a friend would steal money from you. You must have had some pity on the woman for some reason, because I would have never been able to give that person another chance. You sound sweet PQ! You deserve better friends than that!

I have done this too, only to be done wrong the fourth time also.