text: when a friend became an enemy could you forget his mistake and could he or her be again your friend? i have got such situation,that why a asked this quesiton hedlp me well, a couple situations that happened to me recently leads me to believe that it depends on what the person did. in one instance, my "friend" got drunk, started verbally abusing his woman, i told him to stop, went back to reading my book, then he came up from behind me and broke my jaw in two places. now i can forgive that with time. i'll probably whoop his a** at some point though.  now the other situation isn't forgivable. another one of my "friends" tried to steal my best friend's woman and have a three way relationship (him, his girl, and my friend's woman). that sh*t just doesn't heal over time.  so hopefully you can get a guage on what kind of betrayal your friend has done.