You forgave them. You meant it. Now someone tells you that if the forgiveness were real, you would let them back into your life. Does the Bible require that? Read closely, it does not. Scripture commands every believer to forgive, and it does not make that command wait on your feelings or on the other person's apology. Reconciliation is a separate matter. In the biblical texts it depends on the offender hearing the wrong, owning it and turning from it. Nothing in those texts requires a wronged person to stay within reach of ongoing harm.
That answer can sound tidy. The texts behind it are not. Luke 17:3 says to forgive "if he repent." Mark 11:25 tells you to forgive while you pray and attaches no condition at all. Ephesians 4:32 ties your forgiveness to the way God forgave you, and Christians disagree about what that pattern requires. Pastors, counselors and Bible teachers in Jude 3 Project conversations read these verses with real care, and they do not all land in the same place. If you want an answer you can defend, and not just a slogan you can repeat, you have to read the passages for yourself.
This study works through those passages over four sessions. Each session builds one skill on top of the last. First you read a parable as a whole. Then you set the conditional and unconditional sayings side by side and weigh two serious readings of them. Then you trace the path Jesus lays out for repairing a broken relationship. Last, you test all of it against the hard cases: grief that needs time, a person who keeps hurting you, and the bitterness that can grow while you wait. By the end you should be able to say which parts of your situation Scripture places in your hands alone, and which parts wait on someone else.