A saying used to protect relationships and to protect oneself.

Sometimes it is the people we love the most that hurt us the most.

Sometimes they don't even realize.

You use the saying "Forgive and Forget" because you are taught that forgiveness is important.

You use it because the people you love are too important to fight with.

You use it because over time, you realize that it hurts more to be angry, and even though it's difficult to let the situation die, you must let it go.

But what about the forgetting part?

To forgive is easy, but forgetting is next to impossible.

It's hard to look at someone and remember the good times you've had together before the feeling of indifference.

You love them with everything you have, but you can not shake the awful feeling.

If you love them enough you'll make it work, of course.

But that doesn't mean that sometimes you don't think about something that hurt you.

When you don't talk about it, it makes it worse.

When you don't get the chance to talk it out and tell them how you feel andhow you've made peace with the situation

It makes it worse.

If you feel like your words are being stifled because you feel you will be inconveniencing them with your feelings.

Do it anyway.

So you may proceed to forgive and attempt to forget.

When someone you love hurts you unintentionally it's difficult to talk about it.

You don't want to bring it up, so you bottle it in.

If you bring it up you may hurt their feelings because they didn't realize what they were doing.

But your feelings are valid and should be expressed and heard.

Forgiveness is important, and to forgive instantly without talking about it can be done and is possible.

But sometimes you need to say something.

Not everyone thinks like you.

Not everyone feels like you.

Speak your mind friends,

Speak with grace even in the toughest times.