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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How do you move on after being deeply hurt? Someone close to me (not romantically) did something extremely hurtful several months ago. I know they did not intend to hurt me, and they have apologized as well as proactively tried to make it up to me. But it still just hurts. Circumstances keep us interacting regularly. And occasionally things happen that resurface the hurtful thing.

I've tried therapy, and it's helpful...but it's also been months now. Is it possible to move past something like this?[/quote]

Been there and some of these stories involving friends/neighbors/kids really, really resonate!

OP, yes, you will move on, but I would do whatever you can to extract this person from your life. Since you have "circumstances" where you have to interact -- I don't know whether this means it's a parent on your kids' sports team or your church group or whatever you can't really extract yourself from -- it's OK to start stone-cold treating this person like your worst coworker. As distant as possible. Polite, fine. It's too bad that this person will not like this, but they have to live with the consequences of their choices. It's not on you to make them feel better or like everything can be fine again because they feel "guilt" or whatever.  [/quote]

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