Now that we're collectively in a bargaining phase of grief, two things can simultaneously be true:

1) someone can hurt you and shouldn’t be trusted again
2) they, like all humans, carry trauma and deserve compassion

The lesson here IMO is learning how to protect oneself without closing your heart and losing your tenderness

friendly neighborhood shitcaster // working on @pinetree

100% - everyone deserves compassion. sanctioning those behaviors at the community level while caring for the person at the individual level is important. we all make mistakes