“Forgot To Take My Medication”: 50 Wildest Ways People Justified Their Affairs To Their Partners
Lying, cheating, and deceiving are human traits. They're bad, of course, but that's human nature for you. Cheating in a romantic relationship is probably the worst, as it's a betrayal of the most intimate kind.
It's hard to determine whether cheating is common. Many people don't want to admit they've cheated – for others, it's hard to describe what exactly is cheating: does texting count? Is flirting cheating? Not everybody draws the line at extramarital sex – for some, emotional infidelity is just as bad. However, researchers have attempted to do surveys on the topic. According to Professor Nicholas Wolfinger, 20-25% of married men cheat, and 10-15% of married women cheat.
But what this netizen was interested in wasn't how common cheating is. They wanted to know what reasons people had given their partners for having an affair. They asked: "What excuse did your partner give you after cheating on you?" And people came with some incredible, hard-to-believe stories.
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"You just had a baby by emergency c section 5 weeks prior. I was lonely." Threw the whole man away and got a real one. So much happier now. Glad he did it otherwise I might have stayed.
Instead of shaming single mothers, we should be shaming these a$$holes who show their true colors as soon as a baby enters the picture.
No child should be treated like a burden. Happy mothers day.
Load More Replies...Well, if he was "lonely" during the C-Sec duration, he can damn well survive the loneliness now with that experience alone. Sheeesh!!!
personally i woulda thrown half the man away and given the other half to the dog
He obviously was half a man in the beginning, so you can only throw a quarter to the dog...
Load More Replies...this guy should wear are warning sign like toxic waste.. Well wait....
He wasn't lonely, he was horny. Yeet him out of your life and your child's life.
“She’s so much like you, it didn’t feel like cheating.”
“It’s your fault you found out, I did nothing wrong, I tried to keep you from knowing so you wouldn’t be hurt.”
“You weren’t in town, what was I supposed to do?”.
More like the other end of that digestive tube.
Load More Replies...What were you supposed to do? Keep it in your pants. It's not difficult.
I have a scar on my tummy from a C-section and he said he wanted to see a real woman's body. Gotta say that effected me for a long time.
Honestly what’s more “real” than a woman’s body with childbirth scars? That’s literally the most “real woman” you can get, biologically speaking, considering women are the ones who give birth, bio men can’t get those scars…..(I’m sorry I don’t mean this with any disrespect towards our trans friends and I hope it doesn’t come across that way! Trans women are absolutely real women too, I’m just thinking of what I’d like to yell at this jagoff OP’s talking about)
Load More Replies...You should have replied "And I want to be in a relationship with a real man"!
That is the definition of a real woman's body. Scars and stretch marks. Happy mother's day
This is even evolutionary strange because the scar means she has successfully had children, which is ideal in a mate from a biology standpoint
I was working 3rd shift to provide for our family. She said that it was my fault for leaving her alone at night knowing how horny she gets. I moved out so fast it made her head spin.
I can’t stand the reasoning for this one, so if he or she wasn’t providing then that’ll be the excuse
don't they have artificial means to help women out with this, and from what I hear, reasonably priced
It may come as a surprise to you, but most women don't even need "artificial means". They got hands for free.
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“I forgot to take my depression/anxiety medication for the last week..I think I was hallucinating..”.
slappy_mcslapenstein: I've actually seen that happen. I worked in behavioral health. A woman came in during a manic episode and was hallucinating. She thought every man was her husband. We found her in the shower with another patient. She was mortified when she became balanced again and realized what she had done.
So many things I don't remember from being manic. Literally asked my partner for divorce and didn't recall. I am stable now, but mania is hardcore and to come to the other side of it feels so strange.
You must have done a lot of hard work to get to this point! That's completely bragworthy and it's awesome that you've found balance.
Load More Replies...Before I was on my medications and we found a combo that worked I would hallucinate and have full on conversations with people that weren't there when I was manic. I thought I was talking and having a conversation with 2 of my sisters, the problem is that 1 was living in Arizona and the other one in Texas at the time. I could lay down and watch the walls in my bedroom spinning and feel like there was a speaker next to my ear playing the same song over and over. So please don't automatically judge someone unless you have all of the facts or have walked in their shoes.
I used to take huge amounts of aspirin to self-harm (not suicide attempts, you'd have to take a truly enormous amount for a single dose to end you, but it causes horrendous stomach issues and you feel like s**t as well as other stuff), which caused really severe tinnitus - including musical hallucinations (which I didn't know came under the tinnitus umbrella 'til recently). I've also had actual psychotic episodes. The musical hallucinations, they were absolutely real - I went ballistic at my poor roommate for blasting club music that wasn't actually playing - but when I was out for a walk and had a full-blown symphony orchestra playing my brain was still in touch with reality so I worked out it was clearly a hallucination. I don't remember much from my psychotic episodes but I had a friend with me for some of them, and I wasn't able to apply any kind of logic to my hallucinations - e.g. one I kind-of remember is thinking I was heavily pregnant, when 1) I hadn't had any kind of sex in..
Load More Replies...I think I would want to bathe in the hottest water with several bottles of soap if I found out I was hooking up with random a*s people without knowing it and I'm not even married. I just can't imagine having sex and not realizing who you're having sex with!!
Been there, done that. Woke up one morning to realize, much to my complete horror, that a guy I'd known since kindergarten (we were in our mid 20s) who had actively tried to hook up with me for years (I always refused) had spotted my car at a bar, yeah, he stalked me, realized I was kind of inebriated and rufied me on top of that, had taken me home and raped me. He actually had the audacity to ask for a little morning pick me up. Unfortunately this was in 1979 and there was no recourse for me. During the #MeToo era, I tried to find him, but never did. And in response to your statement, I pray it never happens to you. I am totally sincere. It's not a good feeling. You blame yourself, wonder if you sent out vibes that you were finally interested, and all around hate yourself. I now know that I'm 100% not to blame. It took years of therapy and quite a few trials and errors to find the right combo of psych meds to keep me on track.
Load More Replies...I don't think I was ever manic but I know for sure there was a time I was pyschotic. It was ugly, I'm lucky my wife didn't leave me. Thankfully I got help and medication helped me. Not my proudest moment.
At least you got help and I hope you're doing a lot better now.
Load More Replies...Have to say this one isn't black&white, "the cheater is awful", if said cheater was not mentally functional and it wasn't by her own choice (getting smashed on alcohol/recreational d***s IS a choice). Hope everyone's doing OK now.
I'm really pleased to see that there is genuine experience behind this because otherwise I wouldn't have believed it
"I NEED to have some form of polyamory, and I didn't think you'd be open for that"
after I said REPEATEDLY that I would be open to that, just to communicate. Turns out he just wants to f**k anyone they think is hot while his partners only sleep with him. F*****g bastard of a human.
Actually, the first time I saw this dynamic, it was the woman doing it
Load More Replies...Yeah. That's not how polyamory works. Polyamory can be incredibly beautiful, but not if all parties aren't willing to confront their feelings, be COMPLETELY BRUTALLY honest, and willing to work with their partners. There aren't a lot of people with the emotional intelligence, the willingness to confront their insecurities and work through them, and the ability to be completely honest. That makes polyamory difficult.
Embracing polyamory has been an immense journey for me. While it comes naturally to extend love to multiple individuals, the true challenge lies in witnessing those we hold dear share their affection with others. It's a hurdle I've personally grappled with, yet one I wouldn't trade for anything. Through this experience, I've gained profound insights into myself, my desires, and how I navigate communication with my partner. Our current level of understanding and connection fills me with joy. Witnessing their happiness when in the presence of their other partner is both challenging and immensely rewarding. Polyamory demands clear-eyed acceptance from all involved, but the growth and fulfillment it offers make every struggle worthwhile.
As long as he doesn't mind getting tested for STDs forever, wearing a condom forever, and - oh heck. Just get rid of the jerk!
"My psychiatrist told me to." Yeah, sorry but no doctor is going to recommend that you cheat on your partner of 7 years. 12 years later and it still kills me inside.
Sad to say, I HAVE heard of more than one therapist basically recommend cheating. I think those people need to lose their licence.
Ok I need to hear that story, what was their justification??
Load More Replies...So your partner lied and cheated. Maybe change it from killing you inside to a celebratory happy dance because you left them in the past?
I went to couples therapy with my then boyfriend. She totally wanted to f**k him. She'd show up places where she knew he'd be taking me (NOT run-of-the-mill, average places - places for my birthday, etc.) He never knew when folks were hitting on him, and said I was projecting... He and I are still friends to this day. YEARS later, he admitted she'd taken her shot. :/
Load More Replies...One therapist recommended that my then-fiancée leave me. I'm eternally grateful that she followed his advice :)
I am no psychiatrist, but I have to admit I recommended it once to a friend too. She was in a toxic relationship for 15 years and her husband was manipulating her to believe,she is ugly and never get another man and choice to be happy again. Everyone was watching her crumbling away,while he got even more controlling and start to gamble and drink. So I told her to cheat, to realize she is a smart beautiful woman attracting other men. and find the selfesteem to move on. ( Told her for years before,that she is not ugly etc.but that didn't reach her for real) I even thought if it may crash her marriage,she will be free ... she never cheated physically, but started flirting with other men and fell in love for every nice word she got from there. Men just enjoy her affection and attention but dump her and leave her heartbroken, cause they don't get her physically She ist still hanging in there,dreaming of a prince to rescue her,giving up her glow,charme and awesome humor.
Why didn´t you support her in breaking up with hat man instead and try self-healing instead? I would never recommend someone doing some lying to whoever just to keep up a bad relationship. And hoping for HIM to find out and end the relationship? That could (have) end(ed) with violence or worse (taking in to cosideration that he drinks). What kind of a friend are you? And thank god you are no psychiatrist.
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"I thought I could do better". We'd been together over 25 years.
crazygirlinthehall: My husband said the same thing. Together for 27 years.
First guy I lived with said "I'm only staying with you until I find someone better." He also said he didn't understand why other guys were interested in me and no girls were interested in him. Wasn't too long before I found someone who liked me for me and wanted to be with me. Men like that are sad little boys inside.
Just let them "do better". Everyone that said it to me... well, let's say they didn't ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
If you couldn't do better 25 years ago, when you were younger and probably thinner, you aren't going to find anyone better now.
Anyone who thinks they can do better are those than can't and should be single for their entire miserable life
My father told me that when my mother died, he would marry a younger woman to take care of him..mhe is 90 years old, going 91 this year.. Besides being narcissistic, misogynistic, racist and homofobic he is disillusioned as well...
Load More Replies...“She was gonna k*ll herself” when he explained that he didn’t cheat he actually saved a life ❤️❤️❤️ with his penis.
that's why docs used wooden dildos in ancient times..to heal women from hysteria
Load More Replies...“You weren’t acting like a wife” - i was the sole financial provider, stressed out, mid-pandemic, son was just diagnosed with Autism and I lost my father to Cancer.
I read a scientific article about how STD:s peaked during the pandemic. People are weird.
wife= admire your man and orbit him like the sun praising and singing. But not too close And stay in form..wearing heals for cleaning up plot twist: he will cheat then too
"It's a girl. I'm not into girls but I was curious." Nah, still counts.
SweetPotatoMermaid: I know, right?! I went through the same thing with an ex-girlfriend.
It took about a week to untangle myself from that mess. She managed to cheat again during that week, but with a guy this time, and assumed we'd just hit a rough patch and could work it out.
I had been adamant and very clear since I found out about the first cheating that this was the end and that I wanted nothing to do with her.
Like nah, girl, I value myself more than your nonsense. I cut all ties and contact. She's tried to reach out through various methods over the years and I've never replied to her.
Just break up why keep breaking someone's heart over and over
The security of having someone "waiting for them" when they get home.
Load More Replies...I feel like if I were questioning my sexuality I would explain that to my partner and ask for their permission to experiment.
They came home one day with a huge hickey on their neck.
I asked,"So where did you get that?!"
They said, "I fell down and hit my neck on a curb."
I can laugh about it now. 🤣.
Something sucks here... And it ain't the vacuum...
Load More Replies...🤣 that's hilarious. But something happened to me last week and my husband was home to witness it. I was using my epilator on my face and neck and i must have pushed to hard because it grabbed my skin and pinched me. It left me with a hicky like bruise on my neck.
You down voted me because you don't think it could happen? Then you've never used an epilater!
Load More Replies...I had a boyfriend in high school break up with me for cheating because of a legit curling iron burn on my neck... the damn thing was way longer than a mouth and so burnt it was peeling but he was convinced I got it from my gay guy friend... I couldn't be rid of someone who was the stupid and untrusting fast enough!
Load More Replies...Did you walk into a door again? You gotta watch out man, sometimes those doors just jump right out in front of ya.
"We had already kissed, I would've looked stupid if I stopped there!".
"I figured you were already sleeping with someone else". I wasn't.
RudeTheories: This literally just happened to me today in a way. My fiancée and I broke up last year and I thought it was mainly us drifting apart. Found out today she was cheating and when I asked her about it she confessed it was because she thought I was cheating on her anyway.
Bullet dodged I guess.
I have seen a lot of times where people justify cheating because they think that their partner is when they aren't. In a lot of them it seems to be the idea that if they are cheating then their partner must be too, with no evidence. It confusing.
There is a fundamental flaw in human reasoning that causes us to conclude that our world experience is universal. It's our default state to think that we are normal, and thus everyone else does the same things we do and has the same things we do. It's a bias that can get very nasty and lead to horrible things, and we'd all do well to overcome it and realize that "normal" is an illusion.
Load More Replies...I have found that people committing the crime are the first to accuse someone else of it.
"You're too good for me".
thepumpkinking92: My wife is definitely way too good for me... which is why I do my best to not f**k up and make it last as long as possible before she realizes it and leaves me for someone better.
And if any of you tell her, I will hunt you down and catch you like a fish!
Well, if you cheated on someone, that excuse becomes a self-fullfilling prophecy, right?
My late hubby used to say I was too good for him. I always thought I'd struck gold with him & did my damnest to keep him. Lost him November 12th, 2023,just a week after my birthday..Today, Mother's Day, is 6 months. When you have a good one, you do whatever it takes to make them happy. If they (or you) cheat, the cheater deserves all the misery they get. Almost 27 years together and I never once thought about cheating. There's no excuse for cheating, ever. And whatever reason you use to try to explain it away just makes you look more pathetic 🙄
"I thought he was you."
I'm a tall white guy, she cheated on me with a much shorter black guy. Lol.
We all look alike in the dark. We don't all feel alike or smell alike in the dark
I thought it was you, after you had been out in the sun, for a very, very long time.
It was dark I couldn't see but he smelt like you so 😂😂
Load More Replies...Me: We've been dating for nearly a year, why haven't I met your friend Richard you always talk about? Her: Because he's a guy and I know how guys don't like girls having guy friends. Me: I've never had an issue with that, and as you know I have female friends, who you've met. Her: I'm protecting you from your own anxiety! - I get suspicious and look through her phone and find sexting, them meeting up etc and absolutely no mention of me ever, I confront her - Her: if you wouldn't have looked through my phone you wouldn't have been hurt, that's your fault. - I end the relationship, she hopes Richard leaves his wife for her, he doesn't, she gets back in touch with me- Her: What you did was wrong, two people have to agree to end a relationship you can't just end it. -i blocked her-.
When will women who cheat with married men realise that they only very seldomly leave their wives and family? I have no pity, empathy nor respect for any single woman who cheats with a married man. Married people are simply off-limits. Then again, people are very good at convincing themselves that, yes, what they do is not right, but...and then follows a series of excuses that makes your toes curl in embarassment.
And don’t forget that, even if he does leave his wife for you, he cheated WITH you, so odds are he’ll cheat ON you too.
Load More Replies...Short and sweet version to end it: NO, it DOESN'T and YES, I CAN!!! *Click* and blocked. SMH!!!
Knew a nice young church going couple - just starting out, three young kids. He ended up filing for divorce, when it came out the wife was cheating with three or four other guys at church - her rationale was, "Well, Jesus FORGIVES me, why don't YOU?"
Two people do not need to agree in order to break up! That's a red flag for abuse right there.
That's like these "I quit!" "No you can't!" posts I read sometimes here on BP.
Wrong, snooks. One party CAN walk out on a lying cheat without said lying cheat's agreement.
I hope he finds Richard's wife and now they're together after dodging several bullets!
"We were on a break."
We were not. She just said she wants to go to her hometown because she missed her family and childhood friends and having a little me time would be fun. I don't know in what world that even indicates a break.
Zeikos: That's like saying you're on a diet between lunch and dinner, lol.
It was a long, messy story. The short version is that my ex was suffering from depression (which I didn't really understand or recognize at the time), and she decided that I was part of the cause, so she started having an affair.
When the guy's wife found out about the affair, she call our house to confront my ex and to let me know about it. (The guy had started the affair with my ex because his wife was pregnant with their child. Lovely guy, right?)
Anyhow, that affair ended, but my ex still wasn't happy. In less than 6 months, she found another guy who was single and lived a bit further away. In early December, she told me she wasn't going to be home for New Year's Eve because she wanted to spend it with her new boyfriend.
By that time, I had already decided that it was over, so I just said, "OK. Now I can send the letter to the landlord cancelling the rent of our apartment, because I'm moving away." We divorced about 3 months later, and I moved from Germany to Switzerland. (It sounds more dramatic than it was - I only moved about 8 km / 5 miles from the old place, but on the other side of the border).
When I talked to my ex, she claimed that she had the 2nd affair because I wasn't jealous enough and didn't fight hard enough to keep her after the first one. We had been living in a dead bedroom situation for nearly 7 years by that time, and I was just f*****g tired of the whole thing. I never cheated on her, and she treated ME like I was the reason she had to go f*****g other guys.
He said, 'I thought you knew?' What a bulls**t excuse.
Looking back, he probably was high. He turned it into this whole thing about how he thought I was so smart that I just must have KNOWN he was cheating, and since I wasn't angry since I had to have known, I must have been okay with it. The mental gymnastics of it all.
Didn't give an excuse. After sleeping with her ex, she just said, "i had to scratch that itch." She was pretty damn cruel. Horrendous at the time, but it turned out "that itch" was chlamydia. Luckily, i wasn't touching her long before that point. Every cloud and all that.
"i was depressed" 🙄 He and my sister (who is 15 years older than me) had an affair in our home for 18 months. I hold them equally accountable and screamed at them equally before cutting all contact and ties to them. I told her very crazy jealous boyfriend that she f****d my ex, and I told all of our friends and family that they mutually decided to carry our their affair. When the "please stop telling people what we did" calls came, I told them "no because I'm depressed" lol.
She was supposedly "super christian" and told me she didnt think god would want us to be together. Immediately goes on camping trip after with 2 dudes and she ended up dating both consecutively. Cheated on me with one, then cheated on him with the other, then got cheated on by him when they got engaged.
I have encountered this. I call it "Born Again Hypocrisy" because after every major F-up they just "get born again" and act like the slate is wiped clean. "Well I stumbled... but now I'm rededicating myself to the Lord."
Catholics have been doing the mea culpa for centuries. Don't know what these new age Born Again protestants think they're up to.
Load More Replies...It surprises me how many True Crime videos I see where someone is super religious and kills their spouse because divorce was against their religion.
Yeah, like murder is SO much better than cheating. smh ..
Load More Replies...For a super Christian, you have no idea what the literal basic rules of Christianity are.
My ex gf said she was manipulated into having sex with the other guy. She went over to his house and she felt sorry for misunderstanding the relationship between them two. So she said to me: “ I felt sorry for him. So for making it up to him I had sex with him one time and one time only.” I stood up and left. I never saw her again..
I agree that "manipulation" could have in fact been coercion. But it also just could be that she used that as an excuse to cheat.
Load More Replies..."I didn't think that you would care." Was the first one. "I felt trapped by him, and I didn't know what to do." Was the second one. "Anybody would have have done what I did. You know how good he looks. Besides, I deserved to finally have sex with a hot guy." I will admit, that one stung a bit.
1. Justifying bad behavior; 2. Needs more context; 3. Disrespectful and cruel.
It's not necessarily all the same partner. Besides that: victim blaming sucks
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She had room in her heart for two soulmates and wanted me to let it continue. We were married for 6 years. Still are, but Ive started divorce proceedings and she flew off home with him. Whatever, theyre both unemployed and shes been leeching off me for 10 years. I gave her everything she ever wanted; a house, a support network, my time and devotion, and she decided "fixing" this dying man was worth giving everything up.
I'm appalead like one partner just cheats on the other and even have the "right" to alimony, financial support or whatever you call it. Best argument against marriage is seeing how most marriages end.
She doesn't seem to realize that polyamory needs to be ethical and agreed upon by both parties.......
You can have more than one sould mate, and it doesn't have to be your partner. My soul mates so far have been my kid and my Grammy.
"Soulmate" lol, have never heard a story where someone used this word and lived happily ever after.
His words: because A. I gained weight while pregnant and, B. He was bored because he felt he knew all there was to know about me. Cue his 7 mistresses/misters over two years during the early AIDS crisis, so I (a virgin before marrying him) had to have an AIDS test.
"You had a GF before marriage, while I had saved myself for you" (which she didn't, actually).
This is why you should never obsess over or be with someone that obsesses over your “number” or what kinds of sexual experiences either person has had prior to the current relationship. That sort of deep insecurity is a huge red flag. I mean, if you want to talk about it and you can handle it like an adult, go for it. But lots of people just can’t stand not being on “equal footing” when it comes to sex. Those are emotionally immature people that can’t make good partners until they learn to just let it go and be happy with what they have rather than worrying that they “missed out” or that they won’t be “enough”.
Not partner but when I caught my father he just blamed it on being bipolar turned out he never even had it.
The doctors of reddit. They are very quick with a diagnosis dontchaknow?
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Because I wanted a kid now and you haven’t gave me one, WTF.
When my coworker learned that his son is not his he asked his then wife why. She simply told him that she just wanted the baby from “somebody more masculine and cute” and “who is ready to make baby’s anytime and don’t have fertility issues”. After this she was extremely surprised when she learned during divorce proceedings that she need to go for alimony money to the biological father.
Not alimony, child support. He was never married to her, so doesn't owe her alimony. But he does owe child support because the child is his.
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Being poly she loves everyone so she thinks it was a free pass despite being in a closed traid.
Being poly does mean you have a license to f$%/ anyone at any time. It means you and your partner agree to how it should work, that you're both comfortable with. If you break the rules, you're cheating. Period.
While I completely agree with you, please edit does to doesn't. It's clear what you mean, and I agree with it, but I can't stop reading it wrong lol
Load More Replies...Triad, as in "three". "Traid" is not a word (well, not in English, anyway.) I imagine OP just made a typo.
Load More Replies...I am currently in a relationship with a woman that is poly. We've been together 5 years next month. She also has a husband who she has been with for 19 years, married 17. I never in my life considered dating a bisexual woman, never mind a married poly one. But it is the longest and healthiest relationship I've had. No lies, no games, no cheating. And not only did I get an incredible girlfriend, I also gained a good friend in her husband.
“I wanted to see if my feelings for you were real”, so I brought home your roommate's friend.
If you need to screw other people just to know if your feelings for your partner are real, you aren’t ready to be in a relationship.
I know I haven't done anything wrong God knows my Intentions, whatever I did was to myself and not you bla bla, I was very young, all men do this etc.
Did he have, like, a s****y excuses bingo card he was trying to fill?
What's that thing about the pavement of the road to Hell again? Atheist myself, but when someone uses their special book AT ME then fair game to use it back AT THEM. Still amuses me when it turns out that I know their book better than they do.
Why is it that those "mysterious ways" God works in always end up catering to some guy's erection?
Ah, so intent is all that matters. So long as you had good intentions, whatever actions you took were justified.
‘I’m human. I make mistakes. I was drunk.’ Yeah. Screw you.
Exactly! So is cheating. I hate when people call these actions "mistakes."
Load More Replies...“I was so lonely and I just felt so disconnected from you.” Okay, she had an affair while I was in the hospital with staph infection in my spine. Honestly, the absurdity is kind o funny in hindsight.
“He has the same name as you”.
“I wanted to have the whole high school experience. His relationships only last a few months so we can get back together then.”
“I wanted something else.”
“I was having a good time in Vegas and I didn’t want the night to stop. But also I don’t love you any more, but we live together so I didn’t know how to break up with you.” - after going to a friends birthday party in Vegas and then being very cagey and vague about the trip when she got back and I asked how it was.
Three separate relationships.
Once or twice is bad luck; but three times? You might want to think about tightening up your dating pool.
Load More Replies..."Twice is coincidence. Thrice is enemy action"; in this case guy's his own enemy. Needs to reevaluate who he goes out with.
What on earth is "the whole high school experience"?? I never dated anyone until years after I left school
That it was my fault for being safe, boring and stable and not providing drama. That she has to seek excitement out elsewhere so this is really all my fault.
This is the world upside-down: safe, boring and stable is good for people and excitement is only moderately so. Yet people want to feel excitement and happy all the time. There is no such thing as being always happy. Sometimes you are but most of the time you are, I hope, content with your life and grateful for the people you love in it.
Simply being comfortable is the best. I don't do relationships but the best friendships are the ones where you can sit in silence and have it not be awkward, and be rude to each other absolutely knowing 100% you love each other and have each other's backs no matter what.
Load More Replies...So why did she get together with a safe, boring, stable person in the first place?
"I don’t have to justify myself to you."
They're an a*****e whether they try to justify it or not. Literally the only acceptable excuse would be that the two of you specifically had to hook up in order to keep the planet from exploding, with corresponding scientific evidence, and even then I'd still give you the stink eye 🤨
Load More Replies...From my wife of 10 years, not long after Christmas. Day one “I feel like we are disconnected and we need to spend more time together. I feel bad because I have been texting someone at the gym for two weeks, nothing sexual but we need to work on us, I’ll stop talking to him.” Day two: “it has been sexual, ok we will do counselling, I’ll stop talking to him” two hours later “I don’t want to stop talking to him” Day three: “it’s actually been more Iike 2 months, we are over, I’m leaving and I don’t want to do counselling” Guy was a member at her gym where she is a PT, nearly 20 years younger than me, lived at home with his mother still. We have two kids. After he actually turned out to be an a*****e (surprising), she wanted to do counselling, the after a month or so she picked up with another member of her gym. She has totally changed, doesn’t spend time with the kids anymore, is always too busy to actually engage with them, promises them activities and always disappoints them. Her personality/behaviour have shifted from being one of the kindest and most dedicated mothers I have seen, caring and loving towards me and dedicated to family, to never being home, ignoring the kids and just being cruel and deceptive. She hasn’t moved out even though she keeps saying she will, because I do all the house work and look after the kids and she gets to do what ever she wants.
Not necessarily an option when you have kids. You can easily make the choice to downgrade your living situation and sell the house when it's just you. With kids, it's different. Single, he might not be able to afford a big enough place in a decent school area. She could easily get majority or 50-50 custody and he might not want to subject his kids to that.
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Him: "I didn't think you would mind."
Me: "You could have rolled over and asked."
My boyfriend and I had been together for about 6 months and things were going well in the relationship from my perspective. One evening, the two of us plus two of my friends all went out for drinks and ended up back at my bf's place. My two friends fell asleep in the living room, he and I went to his room.
I woke up to my bf and one of my "friends" fooling around next to me in the bed. They acted surprised and couldn't understand why I was upset when I stopped them. Before that event, he and I had never discussed activity outside of our relationship, but I naively assumed that meant it wasn't happening. The relationship between the friend and I ended immediately, while things between the bf and I broke off not long after.
Lesson was to always be clear about expectations, in this case - monogamous vs open relationship. Saves a lot of trouble later on.
And I feel like "no surprise sex next to your partner on the bed while they're asleep" is one of those rules that you should probably assume unless you've very, very specifically talked about it...
Load More Replies...All relationships have rules and for your own mental health and sexual health you Need to know what those 'rules' are 😮
“I didn’t mean to”
B***h wym, you tripped and your d**k landed into her vagina?
Another good one (different person when I was much younger) was “we just made chicken nuggets!” That was it. That was the excuse. After I saw him texting her about their sex. Right in front of me.
I never understood that statement 'i didn't mean to'. Why did they put themselves in that situation in the first place?
I know! Does no one have any self control anymore? No self awareness? No sense of right and wrong? No moral compass that catches them drifting astray and yanks them back on the right course?
Load More Replies..."You weren't supposed to be home till tomorrow" was as close as I got to an excuse :(.
Apparently, it's the cheated-on's fault for busting the cheater.
Load More Replies...“You work so much, and we work together, so I never got alone time away from you” Funny, because she could have spent her nights when I worked alone… but instead she spent it with another girl. She would drop me off at work, go to the other girls house/meet up with her, and then leave to pick me up from work at the end of my shift. Oh, did I mention this girl worked with us too?
I used to bartend. He said I basically cheated everyday and I deserved it.
“I trauma bonded with him” - ok bud.
“You were so quiet and would rarely talk to me (I was an introvert in highschool) so I thought we wouldn’t last so I started dating her in secret so when we break up I wouldn’t be alone” 🤨.
"I wanted to see if I could perform for someone else..."
That’s what you find out when you’re single and not dating any one person exclusively. Before you commit, there’s nothing wrong with playing the field, sowing your wild oats, hooking up. But once you’ve met “the one”, and decide to commit to them, you’re not single anymore, so all that single person behavior has to stop. For good. Your mindset is supposed to change from single to part of a couple, and your motivations are supposed to keep your partner’s happiness in mind (yes, do stuff for yourself, but limit it to stuff that won’t devastate your partner).
"I just hope he applauds you enough, because I'm leaving the theater."
"I didn't mean for it to happen" Woman you slept with three dudes at the same time. She pulled a Bob Ross and had a happy accident. "It wasn't like that" Were you just trying to keep him warm inside of you? Dude must've been on the brink of death. " I just didn't feel the love anymore" You could have I don't know left me then did it but that's too easy. The excuses are always my favorite part.
Bob Ross was famous for saying "we don't make mistakes, we just have happy little accidents".
Load More Replies...“It’s just a bad habit I have :(“.
A habit, is like biting your nails or smoking. Not oops my genitals fell into their's.
She said, 'We were just hanging out, I don’t even like him.'
But she was with him at a hookah lounge at 2:00 AM after saying she was too tired to come over to my house. Within the same week of us breaking up, they went 'Facebook Official,' and the comments were all like, 'It’s about time you two got together!' and s**t like that. At least they didn't even last half a year, lol. I found out from a friend of mine who’d hang out with the other guy that they’d go on small road trips when I was at work 'with a group,' and they would Snapchat each other a lot. It definitely hurt a lot finding out slowly as time went on how deep it went. The funny thing is, that friend and I stopped hanging out a couple of months after that. I guess he wanted to stay friends with the other guy and continued to hang out with the new couple. So I peaced out, and he never reached out. I'm over it now, the friendship and the relationship and the cheating.
That they offered good money.
There's nothing wrong with this: set boundaries for yourself and do t let them cross it. If you're in a committed relationship, than no, no ok.
"I was horny and you weren't there." We spent time every day together but at that moment, I was at my part-time job working.
"I'm sorry, it was a moment of weakness. I'll never do it again." She in fact, did it again.
"It doesn't count as cheating and I'm not a real cheater, because we were not living together at the time". He's an ex now.
“I thought you’d do the same” which is crazy she thinks that low of me, and we were just married for a few months.
" I'm just not sure about us, you know there are so many other people" F*cking wh*re that man is!
"I just wanted to have something for myself." She didn't work and was doing a TAFE course that had zero probable work from it, she just wanted to do it because she'd enjoy it. I however worked long hours, paid for the wedding and the entire houshold, including her. I wanted her to just get something, anything. Because I found that if she just had 8 hours of work a week my stress levels would drop hugely. Almost ten years now, I'm happy it happened. The next person was given such large demands on his finances from her that he engaged in a gold heist.
I don't know if "I only did it to hurt you" counts.
"I thought you'd be into it" We were long distance because of Covid, before leaving I asked her if she wanted an open relationship while we were apart and she said no, she didn't want or need that kind of freedom, ok, I let it go. A few months later we fought badly and didn't speak for a few days, after a bit she confessed and had the courage to give me that answer.
"That they had been drinking and made a dumb mistake."
Stick to making smart mistakes. Nobel Prize winning mistakes, if possible.
“She made me feel loved because we talked and she made me a sandwich for lunch while babysitting our kids”. I was on a trip for a week out of the country. He slept with her in our home with the kids there(they claim asleep, one kid wakes up at the smallest noise(I can’t go pee without him waking up to ask me questions), the other was an infant who was 7 months old, who again woke up to most noises), so no way y’all f****d quietly enough in a bathroom and doorway to our bedroom without our kids seeing it). This same woman tossed said infant in the air and made him hit is head, husband stayed home “fearing a concussion”, didn’t send the baby sitter home or take our infant son to a doctor. Nope, f****d the known s**t.(she was his former coworker who was engaged to another coworker, confirmed to have slept with multiple guys by her now ex fiancé she moved in with after ditching my now ex husband, last I knew she was bringing new dudes into the ex fiancés place to f**k em again, she’s done this with the last 2 places ex fiancé has owned) F****r had the nerve to divorce me right after and leave me and our kids homeless after. I’m happy he only sees our kids once every 2 weeks and I’m free from him. Also happy the s**t he cheated with dropped him before the divorce was even brought into opening meetings. Hope you’re happy, you didn’t want another person raising your kids, no daycare, no other friends, especially men In your newborns life. Now another man raises that little boy and he calls him daddy too. Suck on it you sack of s**t. Btw, how’d that love you had for her go? Her “love” for you? Guess all those I love you’s between y’all were as fake as you. Love bombing narcissist scumbag 🤷🏻♀️ Edit: actually, kiddo was around 1 at that point. Still an infant regardless. I had to count months. he would’ve just turned 1. Still very much something to have checked, bumps to the head can be very bad for an infant due to how soft their skull still is and the fact it’s not fully formed. He hit near his soft spots, thus my major concern.
That sounds as if you're telling her to go stand in the corner. Therapy is not the solution to all the woes you encounter in life. At some point you will have to be able to show at least some resilience. Apart from that: just let her vent her feelings. That's a very healthy thing to do and the way she does it isn't hurting anyone. It's only time for therapy when her negative feelings towards her ex start to impact on her present relationship and her child. Why shouldn't she resent her ex?
Load More Replies..."You were just an experiment." she came to realize she was gay and left me for the person she cheated on me with.
Cheating is never the answer, and using someone for an experiment is a horrible thing to do. That being said, being gay isn't something you can just turn off, and it's better that that relationship ended. For your sake, if nothing else....
I just don't want to pay child support, so doing that keeps her happy.
So OP is staying married to his wife, who is, now openly sleeping with others, just to avoid paying child support? That is a shìtty existence, IMHO.
Either that or OP is married to a husband who has a child out of marriage and cheated her with the kids mom to don't pay child support. Either way, sh***y situation to be in
Load More Replies...That he was a virgin before we got together and I wasn't, and that he really would like to experience being with a virgin. Except he had had sex with a man before. And except the girl he was with was obviously surfing through double digits.
Her ex wanted to sleep with a virgin but could only find a man Virgin
Load More Replies...“I didn’t actually use the app, I just downloaded it to see what it looks like!” Him after I saw a dating app on his phone. Unfortunately I believed him at the time and stayed with him another six months 🤦🏻♀️.
“I didn’t cheat, we never spoke about being exclusive, and I missed that, also I was really drunk and I didn’t thought about the consequences” Also her two months later “it could happen.
So many but the best were: "I can't stop seeing her bc she knows my boss and I don't want her to make work awkward for me." "I think you should move out and we can just date each other. You can come over and then go home at the end of the night." "I never had sex with her I just slept over at her house." Bahaha best decision I have made was to divorce this as*wipe.
My ex’s sh*tty excuse was “well I figured you were gonna leave me anyway” 😒.
“I wasn’t thinking. Why did you go through my phone?!”.
“Our relationship was struggling and I didn’t know how to cope”.
That’s ridiculous the obvious answer was to f**k some one else
Load More Replies...“You cheated first!” I did not cheat. It was just him projecting what he was doing onto me.
"Look, life isn't fair, I didn't want this but you just aren't enough for me." After MIXING UP MY NAME WITH HIS EX - who he was sleeping with. He's now asking mutual friends (including my now boyfriend) if I'll speak to him so that he can have closure. He's reached out to me once and I deliberately signed my e-mail back to him with my name using the first letter of his ex's name, since he apparently can't distinguish between letters.
“I fell out of love for you 6 months ago.” We dated for 5 1/2 years.
I cant remember the exact thing but basically it was about how he had a high sex drive and i didn’t so he couldn’t control himself and just kept cheating. Funny thing is after we broke up, he has stopped cheating completely as far as i know.
The excuse they gave themselves was that I didn't pay attention to the innumerable and self-contradictory requests about all sorts of stuff. When I gave examples of trying to do my best to comply I inevitably chose ones that she also had a direct opposite request about. E.g. "you're too serious" would also without apparent irony would be later followed by "you make a joke about everything". Impressive groundwork in a way.
It was my fault. Somehow it was always my fault.
I know it was just what he would try to use as an excuse, and I didn’t fall for it.
Ultimately, I didn’t care after a while, and that’s when I manifested he gets one of his other women pregnant so I could leave him, and he would leave me alone.
Just FYI: manifestation works, lol.
So the cheating wasn't enough, you had to wait until, he knocked up one of his side pieces, in order to break up with him and leave him? Glad biology and karma worked in your favor and that the cheating bastàrd, will be at the very least, paying for the consequences of his actions, for the next 18+ years.
Many things. That I didn't truly love him, I was just accostumed to him and that if I truly loved him I would be a better women. That I didn't cook, f**k or looked to work harder. (All lies) That I was indifferent with him and he didn't feel wanted. The one he kept on repeating and mostly holding his ground with was that I had made more damage to him with my open disgust (he said that he felt that i was physically disgusted by him, more lies and now paranoia) than he had with his cheating. I did ended up feeling disgusted by him because of how he cheated on me for 5 years without me even knowing and how he had been touched and used by someone else doing God know what and then he came and dirtied me with this someone else sh*t I didn't even f**ng know.
Hey I have one! "It wasn't cheating, we didn't take our clothes off..." (According to this idiot it only counts as cheating if you are fully naked when you do it)
So many words for ‘I’m selfish and I don’t respect you’. Humans are thoughtless, lying, cheating, nasty, selfish beasts aren’t they?
Several of these entries include more than one incident which indicates that the poster makes really bad choices.
Putting aside all the other rubbish, cheating and abuse the most ludicrous was "it wasn't cheating as we were speaking Spanish" (we're both English but he's fluent). And she was my 'friend'.
"I just can't get over the fact that you've had relationships with men who aren't white." That was when I found out he was a white supremacist. And when I asked why he hid that from me he said "Beacuse you wouldn't have given me a chance. " No, I wouldn't have. F***ing idiot.
So, my bf was in a toxic relationship for 3 years before we got together. She asked to follow me on Instagram, then concocted this sob story about how he was with me while they were "trying to fix their relationship". I asked when that was, she said January of 2023. I met him in February. Also, he's the most intensely loyal person I've ever met, and would rather die than hurt anyone like that, even her. She also tried to hook up with his best friend, so...yeah, he's DEFINITELY the bad person here /s
"I was confused and hurting, and she promised me she'd changed. But having sex with her made me physically sick, because I realized I loved you." "You came home from work early! You never do that!" (I was sick and undergoing IV and oral chemotherapy treatments... I felt like c**p and my unemployed ex was screwing another girl in my bed, in my apartment, telling her he was single because I was sooooo lazy.) "But I never actually said you were my girlfriend." (After he got into a fight with another guy who he thought was flirting with me... but he could take another girl on a multi-state road trip vacation with him because we weren't really dating... and he *did* call me his girlfriend all the time.) "I needed to be with someone more intelligent." (This mfer... he had to be waivered into the Army because he scored significantly below the minimum ASVAB score - 32 at the time... he scored in the high teens. My score was 98 out of 99.)
Hey I have one! "It wasn't cheating, we didn't take our clothes off..." (According to this idiot it only counts as cheating if you are fully naked when you do it)
So many words for ‘I’m selfish and I don’t respect you’. Humans are thoughtless, lying, cheating, nasty, selfish beasts aren’t they?
Several of these entries include more than one incident which indicates that the poster makes really bad choices.
Putting aside all the other rubbish, cheating and abuse the most ludicrous was "it wasn't cheating as we were speaking Spanish" (we're both English but he's fluent). And she was my 'friend'.
"I just can't get over the fact that you've had relationships with men who aren't white." That was when I found out he was a white supremacist. And when I asked why he hid that from me he said "Beacuse you wouldn't have given me a chance. " No, I wouldn't have. F***ing idiot.
So, my bf was in a toxic relationship for 3 years before we got together. She asked to follow me on Instagram, then concocted this sob story about how he was with me while they were "trying to fix their relationship". I asked when that was, she said January of 2023. I met him in February. Also, he's the most intensely loyal person I've ever met, and would rather die than hurt anyone like that, even her. She also tried to hook up with his best friend, so...yeah, he's DEFINITELY the bad person here /s
"I was confused and hurting, and she promised me she'd changed. But having sex with her made me physically sick, because I realized I loved you." "You came home from work early! You never do that!" (I was sick and undergoing IV and oral chemotherapy treatments... I felt like c**p and my unemployed ex was screwing another girl in my bed, in my apartment, telling her he was single because I was sooooo lazy.) "But I never actually said you were my girlfriend." (After he got into a fight with another guy who he thought was flirting with me... but he could take another girl on a multi-state road trip vacation with him because we weren't really dating... and he *did* call me his girlfriend all the time.) "I needed to be with someone more intelligent." (This mfer... he had to be waivered into the Army because he scored significantly below the minimum ASVAB score - 32 at the time... he scored in the high teens. My score was 98 out of 99.)
