{"id":10873,"date":"2011-01-22T20:24:31","date_gmt":"2011-01-23T01:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=10873"},"modified":"2011-01-22T20:24:31","modified_gmt":"2011-01-23T01:24:31","slug":"forgiveness-is-a-chore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=10873","title":{"rendered":"Forgiveness is a chore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend is about to embark on repairing her marriage where a long-term infidelity has been uncovered. Is it possible? Hard to say. You never forget, you never forgive, but I guess for some you learn to live with it. People wonder how is it possible to have an affair for so long and the only real answer is it&#8217;s complicated and you can go back and maybe connect the dots that got it all started but you can&#8217;t go back and undo it.<\/p>\n<p>Is a kiss infidelity? Is sex infidelity? Or is loving another person infidelity? Is it possible to love two people at the same time? What are the odds for recidivism for those who have had an affair?<\/p>\n<p>A friend of mine was approached in a work setting by her boss and she told him right away, &#8220;I am not a cheater.&#8221; She later told me she didn&#8217;t know why she said that, but it just came out. She said she doesn&#8217;t know if she would never cheat &#8211; but she knew she would never cheat with him.<\/p>\n<p>I saw a cheater today and I felt like a duck had walked over my grave. People make a mess out of their lives and then they die.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend is about to embark on repairing her marriage where a long-term infidelity has been uncovered. Is it possible? Hard to say. You never forget, you never forgive, but I guess for some you learn to live with it. People wonder how is it possible to have an affair for so long and the only real answer is it&#8217;s complicated and you can go back and maybe connect the dots that got it all&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-2Pn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10873"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10875,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10873\/revisions\/10875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}