POST #3

When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free. Catherine Ponder said this. I chose this quote today because recently I had a problem with one of my cousins, she was the best fiend of my girlfriend. My cousin has always been very manipulative and controlling in everything she did. One day she introduced me one of her best friends (my present girlfriend) and in time we fell in love. When my cousin got the word that her best friend and me were going out on a date she immediately tried to stop the relationship before it got serious. Sadly for her, we were in love. From the day we started to go out she tried to manipulate us into leaving each other by saying lies about the other. At one point she even started to bully my girlfriend by calling her names like “cousin stealer” or “family destroyer”, yes they don’t sound so rough but imagine it coming from your best friend. At that point me and my girlfriend were 3 months in the relationship, and a was sick and tired of my cousins abusive tone toward us as if we were some criminals, so I said a few things that might of hurt her in many ways that at this point I regret saying them but I cant change the past I can only hope for a better future. Six months had past since I had herd a word from my cousin, even though she studies at the same school that my girlfriend does, till I got tired one day and decided to call her and ask for her forgiveness from the words I said. She forgave me and asked for my forgiveness of the things he did. Things aren’t still how they were but I still hope for a better future.