How do you forgive someone?

Forgiveness starts with acceptance, accept the fact what happened there and turn the page. Acceptance will lead you to the emotional healing process.

Wait, he lied to you and he's still denying it and you want to forgive him? That makes no sense in my mind.

How can you forgive the person who never said they're sorry. If you wanna forgive someone, forgive yourself for allowing that person to hurt you.

Might be unfair if we look on it. But like the above posters said, Accept what has been done, and forgive him (even if he did not admit anything) not for his sake but for you to move on and get past that hurtful event. But just a side note, I don't know what is it that he is lying about but be true to yourself, learn when to stay and when to leave and let go. all the best to you.

The difficulty you might be feeling in forgiving him might be your subconscious telling you something. Look at it this way: Let's name what he did. Say, he drove your car without permission, and scratched it. You might be angry, but you know he didn't do it maliciously. It's a big deal, but you can forgive easily because you recognize the intent wasn't to hurt you. If instead, he kisses your best friend, which could conceivably could be considered a smaller issue, you might have more difficulty forgiving him. His intention could be nothing but to hurt you. I don't know what happened, but if you are hanging on to it, maybe, just maybe you shouldn't forgive him.

Forgiving is really just not being mad at him for something he's already done. He lied, but if you. Are going to forgive you may harbor those feelings but eventually you'll feel the total forgiveness where you don't care what happened because you've got him now.