I've cheated, once many years ago and can honestly say I wouldn't do it again.
For me it was more of an experiment. I wanted to know what it was like, I found out, I didn't get caught and the girl I cheated on still doesn't know and never will. (interesting aside, when we broke up she suspected that it was because I was seeing someone else but I was just over her, the affair was done long before.) I got to see first hand how shitty cheating is. But I'm like that. If someone tells me that the plate is hot I have to touch it to find out.
So here's another case of once a cheater, never again a cheater. It's unfortunate that rigid statements like this exist when they don't apply to everyone. There are people though for whom it does apply, it's too bad their bad behaviour sticks to the rest of us.
For previous posters who call it a moral failing, or a loss of integrity that you can never get back, just look at all the people who manage to turn their lives around. It can and does happen.
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