CB :
I 100% agree with what you're saying. However, I will add a caveat to that.
Person A says or does something without meaning and without knowledge to person B. Person B gets hurt, offended, whatever, due to their past or their scars. Now, while person A is not absolved of the hurt, person B also needs to look at intentionality and take into consideration the intent. While you're sitting there in your hurt, you also have to look at yourself and go, "Yes, this is something that hurts me, but this person didn't intend to." That should also factor in, because me saying or doing something without knowledge of it is at a different level than someone who says or does something intentionally.
While both are 100% guilty of what they did, you, as the person who received that, have to understand intentionality. A perfect example of this is laws. You can be guilty of a crime, but if it was an accident versus on purpose, there are different levels of that.
I hope I'm explaining this the right way. I'm not saying the victim is wrong in any way. I'm not saying the perpetrator is not guilty, but there are different levels, and you shouldn't treat everything with the same broad brush. As a human being, we know we have triggers, and certain things trigger people. You have to look at it and go, "Oh, that's on me, not on that person."
2026-08-10 14:11:34