I spent 3 years trying to gain my boyfriend's trust after I cheated on him. What I really needed to do was forgive myself.

Olga Rolenko/Getty Images

One line of Dave Grohl's infidelity statement took me back to the aftermath of when I cheated on my Turkish boyfriend in Istanbul in 2008. Grohl said, "I am doing everything I can to regain their trust and earn their forgiveness." I spent three years trying to do that and it cost me entire sense of self until I finally forgave myself.