do you agree that we forgive as much as we love the person?

Usually this is the case. For me, I do not practice that. Forgiveness is not really that difficult, if there is the open heart. Well, I forgive, but I do not forget. I do not see that there is any sin in not forgetting. This means that I will stay away from that person, though I have forgiven. Forgiving does not mean you will go back to the beginning. Forgiving simply means that you will stop whatever anger you would feel, and you would stop whatever actions you are going to take against that person. Forgetting means you open yourself up to him for another possible attack. They are very different.

I think that if we love someone, we are much more likely to be able to forgive them than we would be if we didn't love them at all. The thing is, you have to be careful that you don't let your love for a person have a negative effect on the things that you are willing to forgive them for. A lot of people will put up with things that they shouldn't have to in the name of love, and it is very important that you take a step back from everything and make sure that you are being rational in your decisions about what to forgive and what not to forgive.

When we accept a person in our life as s/he actually is, be it our friend or a lover, then we ignore his/her shortcomings and ifshe or he commits any mistake we tend to forget him or her. Acceptance and to love someone are inter-woven and inter-related.

Yeah i do, it happens to me before, when we love some one we tend to forgive them in all that their done wrong to us and love them again, but also we set the limit on how long we have to tolerate those bad thing and hurtful that they did to us. We can forgive but we don't let them hurt us many thousand times.

can sometimes be very true what you say. I think it really is more to love you more likely to forgive. and when relationships are really exhausted, so that you can not forgive and it is difficult to swallow yet another infidelity another error. nice day!

For me forgiveness has nothing to do with the degree of how much love you had for a person. Though, it can be related. Coz when love a person though its hard to forgive their mistakes, we cant afford to lose them so we forgive them. Forgiving isnt very easy that is why if you have love in your heart that helps you in forgiving a person. Just like what jesus said, forgive not only 7 times but 777 times and more.

Forgiveness is a huge step in the healing process. Love can take us in so many directions and situations. there will be times when love and forgiveness will go hand in hand. I think it is a huge possibility that we forgive the one we love as much as we love them.

hello, Yes, I believed because it happened to me when my boyfriend do something wrong I can easily forgive him or my mom also and sister any person that is really related to me. But when I have a new friends who do something bad to me, I find myself having a hard time to forgive that person maybe because I dont really love her.

That actually happens a lot now that you've mentioned it. If you really love someone , it hurts you knowing that you're hurting the other person by not forgiving them for what they have done. So love does easily give up to forgiveness. For me personally, I reckon the more you love them, the more hard it is to forgive. That person who you loved so much betrayed you. I would feel really hurt I they betrayed me like that. So I would find it more difficult to forgive them, knowing that they betrayed me and lost my trust. I guess it depends on the person.

Never really looked at it that way before, but yeah that does make sense.

I don't think it's a degree of our love to a particular person but to ourselves. I think person who knows how to forgive chooses not to live in bitterness cause of the love to their life and themselves and other people in general. Forgiveness is a healthy choice. Some people who believe their lives are not connected with anybody else's lives than just the loved ones, will forgive naturally only the loved ones. But that's bad. I think people should be able to forgive anybody, and especially themselves, cause after all we human beings, we all make mistakes.

I think we forgive people we love in order to keep them happy and also to keep them as part of our lives. Also, if one has had any relationship or friendship for a significant amount of years one does not want to feel like they have wasted their time so they forgive and move on instead of erasing the person from their lives.

I think i will agree to that because base on what i see and sometimes i also feel. When we really love a person it is so easy for us to forgive them and it is easy for us to give them another chance. And there is also a time that i'm just pretending that i still feel angry but the truth is i already forgive them, i do that just to teach them some lesson for them not to make the same mistake again.

Yeah. For me, sometimes the degree of love we have for the person, will help us decide easily to forgive them or not. Maybe it's because of the attachment we don't want to destroy. However, the degree of what they have done to us, can be of greater factor. Even though how much we want to forgive them, if what they did to us may look unforgivable, then we were sometimes overcome by anger.

I believe in forgiving and forgetting. I think when we forgive others we will be happy and get the peace of mind. I think there is happiness in forgiving others.

Hi chiyosan, yes if you love a person then you will see any mistakes in them, you just forgive if they do mistakes and even harm to you. LOVE FORGIVE MISTAKES. That is why we have to love everyone, so that there will not be any violence, everywhere peace and happy, this world will be like one small village and all become our people. How good know, think about it, nice and happy. Have a good day.

I totally agree. We forgive other people for no other reason but love. Not necessarily towards that person but there is always the object of love. Love and forgiveness can never be separated. There are people out there that says they forgive but that's the end of it but I don't believe that. I believe that even at the back of their minds, love is really there.

hello, Yes, I believed because it happened to me when my boyfriend do something wrong I can easily forgive him or my mom also and sister any person that is really related to me. But when I have a new friends who do something bad to me, I find myself having a hard time to forgive that person maybe because I dont really love her.

hi chiyosan! as you love you love one you need to forgive them 70 times as God forgive other people as the bible say , to be honest i forgive my boyfriend many times because i love him . yes i can easily forgive other's especially if i love them to much ,