Most of my remembered life, I've thought that you should forgive, and not forget. Isn't there the old saying, fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me? It made a lot of sense to me, and still does to a point. In fact, it made so much sense to me, that when I heard Roger Wanason talk on the subject briefly a couple of years back, I assumed that he intended to say, forgive, don't forget when he in fact said, Forget, don't forgive. I chalked it up to his not quite perfect english, and moved on.

I don't remember just what event it was in recent months that got me to thinking about it, but I've decided I'm wrong. However, here's my problem, at what point does it stop becoming wrong? Jesus said to forgive as many times as transgressed against, and to it looks like God is going to forget as many times as we transgress, but if somebody displays a set pattern of "fooling" you as the saying goes, at what point should you do something other than forgive and forget?

Maybe there isn't a limit, maybe we're just supposed to let people take advantage of us until the day we die, but my personality has problems with that. Any input?