It’s your choice whether or not to forgive someone. It really depends on if you want them in your life. If someone you love hurts you and they ask for your forgiveness. surely you wouldn’t just ignore them and treat them like a stranger. What if you accidentally hurt someone you cared about? I don’t think you’d want them to just treat you like a stranger, undoing all you’ve been through. If you weren’t that close anyways, by all means, do what you want, but it’s much harder to make that decision depending on how much the person matters to you.

Forgiving someone is basically telling the person who hurt you that you’re willing to let it go and move on. You don’t have to forgive someone to stay in a relationship with them but I can’t imagine that relationship ever going back to the way it was. You can also forgive someone but not stay in a relationship with them. Forgiving doesn’t mean forgetting.

I’ve forgiven people who hurt me and I stayed friends with them because I know we care about each other and they’ll do their best not to let it happen again.

I’ve forgiven people who genuinely hurt me but didn’t keep in touch with them because some hurt is just too much. However, as I said, I did forgive them, because I don’t like holding grudges (it’s toxic and unhealthy) and I’m fine giving closure to people even if they hurt me, as I know I wouldn’t want to not have closure.

I’ve hurt people in the past, both intentionally and accidentally, and some of them forgave me, some of them didn’t. Some of them, I stayed friends with, some of them, I didn’t. It always hurts when they don’t, but it’s a guaranteed lesson not to do what I did to hurt them again.

What I’m saying is, it’s up to you. You have no obligation to forgive people, but you do have to think about the effects of your actions on both yourself and others.