CityOfAngels

I've known about cheating ever since I was little. I wasn't even in kindergarten when I first heard that my father had cheated on my mother multiple times, and I was in 3rd grade, about four years after their divorce, when my mother unveiled that she had previously cheated on him with one of his best friends. All throughout my life, I've seen way too many movies that show someone cheating on their significant other. I was in high school when I heard about my brother's girlfriend (now ex-girlfriend) cheating on him.

Every time I heard these stories, I felt a heart-wrenching feeling and always thought to myself: "If that ever happened to me, I'd be so devastated that I'd give up on love." I always thought that if you were good enough, or if you treated your significant other with enough respect, or if you simply just didn't deserve to be cheated on, then you could avoid it. Boy, was I wrong.

I had my first kiss in high school (I was a big prude all throughout my young'n days), and two weeks after we started going out, she cheated on me. Sure, I was devastated, but given our relationship wasn't serious at all, I was able to brush it off in due time. I fell in love for the first time in college with a girl I knew from high school. We were together for over a year, and throughout the time we were together, she had cheated on me multiple times. My love for her was (is) so serious that I stupidly gave her multiple chances, and she took advantage of each and every one. I've been broken up with her for quite some time, but even to this day it stings whenever I think about what she did.

I realized that no one deserves to be cheated on, and that there's no way to avoid it. You can't be super-boyfriend or super-husband and expect that your significant other won't cheat on you. It can happen at any time. And from the society I live in today, it seems that it happens more often than not.

Is this true? Is your significant other statistically bound to cheat on you some time or another? Also, if this is true, does that mean that YOU are statistically bound to cheat on your significant other? Well, let's find out.

Post here if you have ever been cheated on. Let's try not to discuss specific events in this thread, but rather concentrate on the numbers. Please, if you will, answer the following questions:
1) Have you ever been cheated on (that you know of)?
2) If so, by how many different people (that you know of)?
3) Have you ever cheated?
4) If so (for #4), how many different people did you cheat on?
5) How many of these occured in a serious relationship?

I HOPE that I'm wrong. I HOPE that I'm just thinking negatively based upon my own experiences. But if I am correct; if people really are statistically bound to cheat on their significant others, then something REALLY needs to be done about our social integrity when it comes to relationships.

P.S. Please participate even if you would answer "No" and "N/A" to every question, as your addition to the statistics count towards the overall result.

Oh yeah, I'll start:
1) Have you ever been cheated on? - Yes
2) If so, by how many different people? - 2
3) Have you ever cheated? - No
4) If so (for #4), how many different people did you cheat on? - N/A
5) How many of these occured in a serious relationship? - 1

Edit: Added "(that you know of)" to #'s 1 and 2 for a more accurate survey.

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