"But that's the problem.

You can't just say "let's pretend it never happened", because it did happen. You complain that people cannot suspend their disbelief, but you live in a world of suspended disbelief. You can't just push everything to the side and keep going all the time, because there comes a point at which you have to acknowledge what's happened and learn from it."

I wish that this wouldn't keep playing back in my mind... but some people are just... complete repeats of others.

Does it ever happen...

...that someone says something to you, and it actually bothers you heaps, but you pretend that it was a joke, and then just sit there becoming more and more enraged?

That's me, right now.