We should seek forgiveness from those others affected by our sin, as well.
I think you'd agree that not only forgiveness, but reparation of some sort should be made. Like I said,if you rob a bank, you have to give the money back, even if God forgives your sin.
So you recognize, I think, that we create harm in the world when we sin, and that we can have a responsibility to repair what we have done wrong, to make it up to the people harmed.
But what, I ask you, does one do when the "people harmed" by your sin is more general than identifying a few persons. What if your sin has made an indelible change in the world for countless people? How does one go about making reparations for that?
I would say that it very well may be possible ... that one cannot make up for one's sin ... beyond returning the loot, that is ... ;^)
I would say that what one is called to, ... after repentance and forgiveness, ... is a forward walk with God, ... asking God for direction ... and following in the way in which He leads.
Much prayer.
And I would say that the Church, in the sacrament, can speak for the hurt that the public has taken because of one's sins, and reconcile the two. How can one know what the public, the community of believers needs for reconciliation if one does not ask?
SD