What are your views on cheating?

Canada
July 11, 2010 12:27pm CST
What are your views on cheating? Do you see a problem with being the cheater? What about the "other woman/man"? Does it bother you if someone is cheating on their girlfriend with you? Is there ever a situation where cheating is acceptable? What about forgivable? I feel that cheating is wrong and I do not know if I would ever be able to forgive someone for cheating on me. I do not think that is is ever acceptable, if someone did not want to be with me they should just break up with me instead of cheating. That would be much less painful. I have been the other woman. I do not agree with it, but in a way it makes me feel sexy and wanted.
15 responses
@babymc23 (153)
• Philippines
12 Jul 10
Cheating is definitely a BIG no no for me. I am a one-man woman and I expect my man to be the same. My boyfriend experienced being cheated on by his ex. He did take her back but there relationship went downhill from then on. Things still did not work for them and eventually, they did break up. For you vulgarlittleprincess, I do hope you will find a guy who will make you his only woman. :)
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• Canada
12 Jul 10
I also hope that I will find someone to make me his one and only! I have not known anyone who has recovered from being cheated on to the point that the relationship was the same as it was before the cheating occured.
• Philippines
12 Jul 10
Cheating is always doing more harm than Good things...
@Angelgirl16 (2171)
• United States
13 Jul 10
Hi, I don't think anyone knows how deeply the pain goes when you find out that your partner has cheated. The pain is nothing you would wish on your worst enemy. Sometime, I know we get caught up in the moment where we stop thinking logically and we also forget about the consequences of this lustful act. That is what it is, a lustful act. I don't think, no, I know I could not be with a partner that cheated and I found outabout it. If I stayed, everytime we made love I would think about him be with another partner, if he was comparing, if he had a diease, etc. I would evenually forgive him, but from afar. I love life and I love whom I am with, but if the person doesn't feel that way about me, then we have nothing to talk about. Later Gator.
• Canada
13 Jul 10
I don't think that I would be able to be with someone who cheated on me without thinking about them being with the other person either. I would be wondering if they were thinking about the person they chreated on me with. I know that the guy who cheated on his girlfriend with me was thinking about me while he was intimate with his girlfriend so I can only imagine how that would feel if it were me who had a boyfriend who was thinking about another girl.
• United States
14 Jul 10
Hi, I feel that way because I think cheating is so unnecessary. If you don't want to be the person you are with, why not just break it off as civilized as possible. There is no reason to fight about breaking up. I don't want to be with someone who doesn't want to be with me.
• United States
12 Jul 10
I think cheating is unacceptable. I do not feel it is forgivable, because it shows the cheater has a lack of respect for the other person. As far as being the "other woman (or man)", if they (honestly) did not know then I can see forgiving him/her. If he/she DID know, then I would hold them as accountable as the cheater. Do I feel the cheater deserves to be "torn a new one"? No. I don't think it would accomplish anything, I think it would only cause more grief & heartache for the person who was cheated on. If the person who was cheated on decides to stay with the cheater, time & time & time again, then I feel no remorse for that person because they show a general lack of self-respect. And if you can't respect yourself, how do you expect others to respect you?
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• Canada
12 Jul 10
I agree with this. The person being cheated on should have enough self respect to find someone who will not cheat on them repeatedly. If they do not put a stop to it the cheater will walk all over them in other ways as well. Being "torn a new one" would be a bad idea as well, probably the best thing to do is to just remove yourself form the person completley and get on with your life.
@eurekafemme (5877)
• Philippines
12 Jul 10
I don't want to cheat and I don't want to be cheated on, that is very clear. No matter what shortcomings I have or flaws I have, it isn't fair to cheat on me as well as it is not fair to cheat on the person who trust me. As being the other woman, well, there were times I was desired by a married man or someone committed to someone else already. I often got myself into that situation.:-( Albeit it made me feel more desirable and sexier but I wasn't proud of it, I despised it, on the other hand. I don't have to be that woman to have higher self esteem and pride.:-) I have more better qualities to offer, thus, I don't settle for the "next best" thing.
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• Canada
12 Jul 10
I have been the other woman as well, it made me feel desirable and sexy at the time but as soon as it was over I felt terrible. I did not like being a homewrecker or causing anyone to break up. I would never want to be cheated on either, I know I have flaws and I would like to find someone who loves me inspite of all these flaws instead of finding a reason to sleep with someone else because something I do/say gets on their nerves.
• Australia
12 Jul 10
As someone who has been cheated on, this topic cuts close. Before my experience, however, I had little respect for people who were unfaithful. In my opinion, if the relationship means so little to a person that they are going to have an affair, they should simply end the relationship. It just seems so greedy to want the best of both worlds. When I found out that my girlfriend had cheated on me, I immediately ended the relationship. I could not see any point in continuing with it - even though I loved her and had planned on proposing - as the trust had gone. I would never be able to feel one hundred per cent confident that she was not cheating and, as she felt so little respect for me in the first place, I was not going to put myself in a position of further hurt and heartache.
• Canada
12 Jul 10
I feel the same way. If the trust is not there why continue the relationship? I had a boyfriend who left me three times. After the second time we broke up and he asked me out I told him not to be with me unless he was 100% positive that he wanted to be with me. I spent a year being afraid that when he was acting distant that he was planning on leaving me. He spent a year convincing me that he had no intention of leaving me, until he blindsided me with it while we were in another city walking around. Now neither of us cheated, but if I did not trust him after the second time I should not have subjected myself to a year of needing his assurances that he was not going to leave. Expecially since he left me anyway.
• Malaysia
12 Jul 10
from my point of view, 'don't do unto others what you don't want done on to you'.. so i won't cheat, because i wouldn't want my partner to do it to me. and if she does cheat on me, i'd just have to let her go... because it's obvious that she would prefer to go out with someone else if she thinks about cheating in the first place..
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@pinky31ps (142)
• India
21 Jul 10
well i don't support cheating. i mean if you can't stick to a single person then why the hell are you playing with someone's sentiments? you should be a Casanova if you want different bodies every nite. plus about forgiving. any mistake done by chance can be forgiven but when person deliberately cheated on his/ her partner then i think he should get a kick on his d***.. that's what they deserve..
@junmae (1586)
• Philippines
12 Jul 10
For me, cheating is all about cheating one's self. It is also a form of selfishness because they didn't care for the feelings of others. They only fool there selves because they though they would be happy for it but in the end they will be sorry for there selves.
@jagjit273 (1754)
• India
11 Jul 10
Well sweetie pie , I treat the people the way they treat me , if they are true with me , I am true with them , if they cheat me , i dont get angry or get anoid with them, I slightly cheat them right under there nose and make them angry. In your case it looks that u are not for one man material, you want to enjoy your Body to the full. can we meet some time and have fun
• Canada
11 Jul 10
I am definatly one man material, so while I thank you for your offer I have to decline... I do not agree with cheating to hurt someone. If it is not working then just end the relationship.
@llbo1981 (1237)
• China
12 Jul 10
Cheating is not good for us.But sometimes cheating can help people in some conditions.It is said that the cheating is called boon cheating.Boon cheating is widely used by people in daily life.Especially used by men in the world.
@sharad7 (85)
• India
12 Jul 10
I think cheating is a bad thing because in this only the normal person is cheated and intelligent one take benefit of this because in this world lot of people are cheaters and the cheaters cheat us but in the childhood this cheating is beneficial in the childhood because its help up to increase our marks.
• United Arab Emirates
11 Jul 10
I think we are all human beings and deserve one chance. I will forgive anyone chaeting me once. but i dont think my heart will be able to take it for the second time. i am also a human being and my heart will not permit me to give another chance. But deep inside my heart i will fell that i have lcaked something that made someone cheat on me. i will definately work on it.
• Canada
11 Jul 10
I am ok with the fact that humans are mammals and will be attracted to other people no matter what. It's not cheating that requires the hard work. I do not think that I would be able to trust someone not to cheat on me a second time. I also do not think that it is always the fault of the person who has been cheated on. For someone who has been cheated on to have to work on making themselves lovable enough that their boyfriend or girlfriend will not cheat on them is proposterous. If the cheater is not happy in the relationship they should leave, not make the other person try to change.
@malihat (216)
11 Jul 10
I think cheating on someone is terrible and I don't think very highly of cheaters. I would never let a man two-time on his girlfriend with me and would never be ok with being the "other woman". That said, I might be willing to forgive someone for cheating on me once (but only one) depending on how invested I was in the relationship.
• Canada
12 Jul 10
If you could forgive once but do not think very highly of cheaters would you be able to look at the person who cheated on you the same way as you did before? I do not think I would be able to do that.
@malihat (216)
25 Jul 10
At first it would be really hard and I would probably need to spend some time away from that person but after some time passes I think I would be able to forgive that person and move on.
@deve_annrn (1856)
• Philippines
31 Jul 10
i definitely don't approve of cheating..either i'm the one who's being cheated by my boyfriend or me as the third party... i know i can never forgive my boyfriend if he ever do this to me... it is not acceptable...and i would even prefer it if he breaks up with me than me learning that he's cheating behind my back..that's more painful to me... I will never be the other woman...because as a girl i know how it will feel like to be cheated... so i will never accept a guy who is cheating on their girlfriends...because i can already see his attitude of being a cheater..if he cheated on her..,he can actually do that too when we are couple already... so i'm definitely not a fan of cheating...
• Indonesia
12 Jul 10
Its very hard to forgive if my girl has cheating me, and with that concept I never think gonna cheat on her. Life is always full of chance, so if we have any commitment with someone I think we must appreciate that. If the other side you have some one that make you feel more sexier and you like it, you just think what if your partner feel the same with some body else.