Do people who cheat on their partners ever feel bad?

Well I don't know I never cheated on mine cause I know how bad it hurts i caught my boyfriends in my bed with a 16 year old an he had the nerve to ask if i would take him back no way he was 40 an with a 16 year old that was not right plus he had the nerve to bring her to my house so I threw her out side with her clothes follwing her an him he was walking funny for awhile afterwards

well there are what we called "KARMA" anyone cheat or do some bad to others people will not live happily no matter he is rich or even have influential personality.i feel sad to people doing the wrong way and that is cheating.i feel also bad for example my husband cheats on me i feel angry for sometime but i will forgive him and give him another chance to work it our relationship.

Speaking as an ex-wife whose husband cheated, I don't think they feel badly unless they are caught. There is something missing in their character, they are selfish and think only of themselves. People who cheat have no self control, they are slaves to their libidos.

hi jugsjugs I have never cheated on anyone, but I have seen cheaters swear and be damned they would never do it again, and I felt what they were sorry about was only that they got caught. I sensed that if the other person believed them they would be in for a rude surprise because this person would cheat again,only this time be much more careful not to get caught. I myself would never trust a man who cheated because if he did it once, what is to stop him from doing it again.

Most people actually do experience some feeling of regret/grief. I have never cheated nor ever would, but some of my friends place it to the equivalent of feeling like your puppy just got ran over :( Yeah I think it affects everyone, just to different degrees.

I dont think if they ever feel bad they will cheat anyone. if you talk about me i feel guilty every time when ever i do anything wrong , no matter big or small. those things prevent me to do these things. and as you asked if they feel bad when caught, i think they feel bad because they are caught not because they have done something wrong.

i think those who cheat don't actually feel bad .their conscience has stopped responding and they have long shed their inhibitions. when they are caught they might feel bad to have been exposed momentarily but inside they might be relieved that its over..if the other person is that gullible enough to trust them again then they are back to their games...but they hardly feel remorseful as they don't have the superego to experience a remorse.

Of course, every person has a conscience but sadly some of them get used to it except when they are being caught. It is like cheating in an exam, you cheat for your benefits why do you feel bad about it, but when you got caught that you feel sorry for yourself from doing it and regret it. Cheaters don’t have self confidence. And those who cheat don’t cheat anyone but themselves.

i think some do.. i mean a lot of the people confess that they had one when they could have gotten away with it so either they felt bad about it or just felt like being a jerk and hurting their SO.. but we always see the jerks that only admit it when they know they are getting caught so we think that maybe they all are like that.. i still wouldnt trust anyone that cheated on me though

It depends on the individual. Most people are selfish and self serving so no, I don't think most do feel bad. There are a few compassionate and feeling people left on the planet and those do feel bad. Another few have scruples and would never enter in to a extra marital affair.

Hi, jugsjugs! Well, i cheated on my first husband. It was after he had cheated on me for several years, and with several other women of whom he had several children born from the cheating. I am not saying what i did was right, but at the time no i did not feel bad about it at all. He did catch me, and i did not care. I was tired of all of it, so i finally divorced him. It never bothered him to cheat and get caught cheating on me, so i was not going to let it bother me when i finally got the nerve to cheat on him. But, two wrongs have never made a right. I was wrong for cheating on him, even with all the cheating he was doing, i should have found another way.

I think it depends on the person- specifically on his conscience. If his conscience is already used to doing what is bad without him feeling bad, then he will not be consciense-stricken and do the act again and again.

As of my observation, they're just pretending to feel bad if they are caught but if not i'm pretty sure they will not admit a fault. When they are caught they would really beg their partner and apologize, after a while they'll cheat again. Is that feeling Bad? That's a lie... They enjoy cheating in the first place...

I think cheaters are only pretending to feel bad when they are caught. they feel sorry then apologize but do it again for the nth time. If they are not caught i am 100% sure they wont admit a fault... hmmmm... hence, they dont have a heart...

I think the one time,impulsive,or unintentional cheater does get to feeling bad. I think the serial cheater does not. I do not know what makes a difference. Some people love the idea of doing something they should not, like cheating, and it is the thrill of cheating they love, not the other partner. I believe those people lack remorse and often leave a sequence of sad and hurt people behind them. Sometimes circumstance leads a person to cheat, maybe just one time, and those people do feel remorse when they realize what they have done.

I'd like to think so. but to each their own I guess. I heard some men don't. never heard women said the same but it's possible/ I would feel bad of course since my husband is not a cheater and has provided for me what I need financially and emotionally I do have fantasies but I wouldn't trade my marriage for that unless there is such a person like him and I doubt it very very much

Hey jugs! I don't think that most people who cheat on their partners feel bad or guilty. If they did then they wouldn't cheat in the first place! I have been with men who have cheated on their wives and I don't believe that they really felt badly because they continued to cheat over and over. I am not proud to admit this, but I was young and I unfortunately fell in love with a married man who I knew would never leave his wife because of his religion and he did love her, but it still didn't keep him from being with me for 10 years! He loved me too, but that was just my stupidity for keeping it going on as long as I did! And this is over 25 years later and he is still calling me and wanting to see me and we are both in our 50's! I stopped seeing him about 15 years ago or longer!

well.. I think those who cheat will never feel bad when the cheat, if they do, they won't even bother to start.. and as for feeling bad after being caught, that's coz those who cheat finds it embarrassing that they got caught. I hope those who cheat, will truly got some 'lessons' to be learned, as then those cheaters will remember this forever.. however, who learns right.. being taught a lesson after doing it.. no point.. damage has been done..

darl, im a huge beliver in karma. therefore, one way or another i belive those inferior people that do those sorts of things, will eventually get whats coming to them, and lets be serious, if they feel bad, why did they do it? or were they drunk? and if they were why did they remember anything?

I think they dont... what i observed is that they actually pretend to feel bad and then apologize and do it the nth time around. Is that really feeling bad. Just thinking of hurting your partner prior to the action of cheating is already a manifestation of guilt... so I think guilt is not in cheaters vocabulary because they enjoy cheating. They should stop cheating the first time they are caught right?