Why do people love another person but then cheat on them with others?

United States
December 12, 2009 4:55pm CST
There is always people saying they love their significant other and marrying them but then later on along the line they cheat with other people. But why is that? Why get married or even get involved with someone if you are not going to give that relationship your all and committment. Honestly, to me i think that is a waste of time and energy to play games with people's feelings instead telling them the truth people want to drag that person along like they are not human beings. Can someone please explain this to me because I am lost on this one!?!
8 responses
@trisha27 (3494)
• United States
12 Dec 09
I totally would have to agree with you on this one. I too can never understand the people that say they love the person that they are with and then cheat on them. I'd have to say, if you love someone as much as you say that you love them, then you would remain faithful to that person and never cheat on them at all. Cheating on someone is not love at all and in my opinion I think that it is selfish and unfair.
@trisha27 (3494)
• United States
12 Dec 09
And one more thing that I would like to add there is never a good reason to cheat no matter what the reason may be
@lyly54 (10)
• United States
15 Dec 09
well I think maybe the reason they cheat is because the other is not given them something. Whether it be mentally or phyical. Im not saying cheating is right. not at all. Other reason is that a routine can get boring. I try my best to spice thing up with my husband to keep him interested. Now Im not the only one doing it. He does the same because he loves me and wants to keep me happy. If you are giving your all in all aspect and they still cheating them it aint you its them...
@clocks123 (1225)
• United States
13 Dec 09
the two of you have to think and have the right attitude for commitment. you must believe in it the same. it should be very important to both of you no matter what. why others cheat on their spouses? They can only answer that. if they don't want to make the marriage work by getting some help, both parties, then i don't believe they were really in love to begin with.
@lelin1123 (15595)
• Puerto Rico
14 Dec 09
I have been wondering the same thing for years. My ex who I had two beautiful girls with cheated on me left and right. About 21 years ago I left him after 11 years, even though we were in touch by phone that was it. I knew I still loved him but I wasn't going to put up with is disrespect. Now for about the last 8 years he has called me just about everyday still says he loves me and no one else. He is now suffering with emphysema and he is all alone. If he had not acted the way he did years ago I know we would still be together. However, he messed up and now its to late. The problem is men think with the wrong head and then get screwed for their stupidity. They don't know what they have until they lose it and then its to late. I also blame the females who will cheat with people who are either married or committed. If females didn't go for the bait there would be no cheating. Females don't understand when they cheat they are lowering themselves to the dirt on the ground. Look at all the girls coming out of the woodwork over Tiger Woods. I think its a disgrace that these females don't mind coming out telling their stories knowing the fact that he was married with kids and they still fooled around with him. They are no better and look like tramps and homewreckers. I guess people just won't be satisfied with what they have and feel the need to have a variety. With that comes divorce, diseases, unwanted pregnancies, pain and suffering and sometimes murder. Is all this worth it? I honestly don't think so, not for a minute.
@sublime03 (2339)
• Philippines
13 Dec 09
I really am interested to the answers people will have with this question. Because it wonders me to why they cheat when they already have a good husband or wife plus kids for some but still ends up hooking up with somebody else. Whether the second one is better or not, why do it when you know at the end of the day you will still go back to your own family. I for a fact will never bring myself to doing it. Knowing I already found the person I will spend the rest of my life with. I really do not get the point of seeing other people when you already have it.
• Malaysia
14 Dec 09
Some people are just unlucky and meet this kind of people in their life. I guess these type of people pick certain individual that has the quality that they want as a wife/husband and mother/father for their child but never a lover, someone that they can have fun with.
@honey023 (57)
• Philippines
12 Dec 09
Hi gOod day.. There are so some reason why others cheat.! These maybe because the one that they choose haven't gave the love they are expecting. That's why they try finding it with someone. There are so many instances that you thought that the love that you choose is the perfect one but as you go along you will realize that it is not.. Some people love another person even if they are already committed not because they do not love the first its because its lacking!!!
• United States
12 Dec 09
Oh Gosh, I don't think there's any way of saying why somebody would cheat on another person, no matter how much they "feel" committed to them. I'm sure there's no good answer for this, other than to say that everything in our society tells us to do what we "feel" is right, regardless of the circumstances. Loving somebody should be as much, maybe even MORE about the decision to commit to them, regardless of how the feelings come and go. Any couple who has been married 20-30-40 years will tell you that they don't always love their significant other. We need to start seeing marriage as a commitment as much as an expression of feelings. And don't get me wrong, I'm a highly emotional person who is very romantic and I hope to settle with someone who I can keep the romance alive with, but I know it will be a choice and that other people might catch my attention... but once I'm in with one person, that's my man. Love is a choice.