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Old 10-20-2013, 08:50 AM
 
Location: Katonah, NY
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How can you be so sure?

I can bet it isn't so great, especially the person thats been betrayed; infidelity will always loom over their entire relationship--Its something one never forgets.
Because I'm really close friends with one of the couples. The other couple is getting divorced - but it wasn't because of infidelity. In both cases - the cheating happened before they got married.

I'm not saying it's ALWAYS possible or that staying together is always the best option. I'm just saying that it is possible in some cases- but not if the other person cheats back or constantly throws it in the other person's face.
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Old 10-20-2013, 08:56 AM
 
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No, I don't think the person who was cheated on should then cheat.

It only lets the cheater think that they are "even" and absolves them of guilt.
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Old 10-20-2013, 08:57 AM
 
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The relationship was doomed when she cheated. I don't even know why he stay with her, and worse, marry her.
I'm getting that their relationship was ''great'' (according to the poster) when the man proposed and practically during their whole marriage, that his change is happening this year. I guess that guy must have been bottling all up until he couldn't take it any longer.
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Old 10-20-2013, 09:01 AM
 
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No, I don't think the person who was cheated on should then cheat.

It only lets the cheater think that they are "even" and absolves them of guilt.
Or maybe it can also teach them a lesson of not doing to others what they wouldn't like it being done on them.
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Old 10-20-2013, 09:15 AM
 
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This is the story of a supposedly reformed cheater; the one that does it at some point but never repeats it again. This woman cheated when they were bf and gf but looks like the tables have turned. She's suspecting that her now husband is recently cheating. But wouldn't that be even? One thing I've noticed is reformed cheaters (or active cheaters) are very good at detecting other cheaters quicker than someone who never cheated....
Relationships based on paybacks and gotchas are emotional cesspools.
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Old 10-20-2013, 09:28 AM
 
Location: SacTown
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The cheater should expect an eye for an eye for their actions. What comes around goes around.
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Old 10-20-2013, 05:37 PM
 
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
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If you are obsessed with the idea that your partner will cheat on you, there's an easy solution: lock yourself in your house.
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Old 10-20-2013, 05:51 PM
 
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Hell yeah. And preferably sooner rather than later.
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Old 10-20-2013, 08:58 PM
 
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This is the story of a supposedly reformed cheater; the one that does it at some point but never repeats it again. This woman cheated when they were bf and gf but looks like the tables have turned. She's suspecting that her now husband is recently cheating. But wouldn't that be even? One thing I've noticed is reformed cheaters (or active cheaters) are very good at detecting other cheaters quicker than someone who never cheated.

My husband is bringing back my past cheating but do I deserve it?
So True
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Old 10-20-2013, 09:07 PM
 
Location: Chicago
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This is the story of a supposedly reformed cheater; the one that does it at some point but never repeats it again. This woman cheated when they were bf and gf but looks like the tables have turned. She's suspecting that her now husband is recently cheating. But wouldn't that be even? One thing I've noticed is reformed cheaters (or active cheaters) are very good at detecting other cheaters quicker than someone who never cheated.

My husband is bringing back my past cheating but do I deserve it?
When you decide to stay with someone after you've caught them cheating, you implicitly agree to forgive them for that transgression. Forgiveness does not mean you keep that transgression in your back pocket to throw in their face whenever you get angry.

To be honest, I think our culture's insistence that cheating is always some kind death-penalty offense is ridiculous. If you are married to someone for 30, 40 or 50 years and you only cheat on them on a couple of occasions in all that time, you are GOOD at monogamy, not bad at it.
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