When forgiving gets to the point they think you're a fool I believe in forgiveness. I believe people make mistakes, have bad moments, and sometimes deserve grace. But there comes a point where repeated forgiveness stops being a reflection of your kindness and starts becoming permission for someone else's behavior. When there are no consequences, some people stop seeing your forgiveness as compassion and start seeing it as something they can rely on. The sad truth is that not everyone interprets a good heart correctly. Some people see patience and assume you'll never leave. They see understanding and assume you'll always come back. They see forgiveness and mistake it for weakness. Not because you are weak, but because they've become comfortable with receiving chances they never truly earned. Forgiveness should heal a relationship, not become a system that allows the same hurt to happen over and over again. At some point, self-respect has to speak louder than hope. And one of the hardest lessons in life is realizing that constantly forgiving someone who refuses to change is not kindness to them, it's cruelty to yourself.