What does it mean if you forgave someone and they hurt you again?

If we are not careful we may think if someone takes advantage of our trust, that our trust is the problem. If we think our trust is the problem, then we will stop trusting and stop loving. This mistake will lead to destroying love in our lives. Love requires if someone is taking advantage of our trust, that we ask them “why” for their own sake. Then we have to make the toughest decision of all. We have to decide... have they truly repented. Will they truly change? If we don’t believe they will change for their sake, we must step away. Staying for what we want while knowing they won’t change is not loving them, it’s loving ourself. Going if they have truly changed may be a big mistake. Stay or go, what we should never do is ride the fence. We should not stay and use shame and guilt to keep them under our control. If we decide to stay, we must trust again knowing we may get hurt again. If we go, we must forgive them and pray they will one day change. This is what love requires. Living a loving life is no easy task, but it’s by far the best possible thing we can do for ourself. We can’t do it for ourself, or it’s no longer love. Though love always cost us something, it never cost us more than not loving cost us. Matthew 18:21-22 Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times?Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.