If your bf/gf cheated on you will you do the same?

Philippines
February 16, 2013 1:29am CST
She/He is your world. You built your dreams around him/her. You thought that he/she is the one. Suddenly, without you knowing it, everything crashes in front of you, because that same person happened to be a cheater. So, what now? After crying your heart out and cursing the world, what's your next step? Will you just let go and move on or will you cheat back on him/her?
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19 responses
@cupkitties (7421)
• United States
18 Feb 13
Revenge cheating is a waste of time. #1. If they are smart they are expecting you to get back at them and they expect it to be in the same way as they did. They have already mentally prepared themselves so they're reaction might be a bit disappointing #2. What if this person doesn't care about you at all? What is the point then? They aren't going to be phased at all by your actions. #3. It makes you no better of a person than they are. They best solution, is not to cheat. Yes, let it go, but I'm not going to recommend staying with them either. Of course that last part is up to you, but you come out looking the more superior, stronger person by not stooping to their level.
• United States
18 Feb 13
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@laydee (12798)
• Philippines
16 Feb 13
There are a lot of people who has gone through this, I am one of them. I think it's not good to do the same because you can't correct a mistake by doing another mistake. It's important to understand that these sorts of things happen - either intentionally or unintentionally (though a lot would not believe it). However, doing the same bad deed to gain revenge will not really make things better, in fact, it would make you feel you have no self-worth in the end. I suggest that if the pain is too bad, let go. Just find a better person and be careful who to trust next time. Experience is the best teacher after all. However, if the relationship continues, it's important to know and understand that the relationship would never be the same. Both parties should be willing to work on it (and by "work" it means "hard work"). Some don't come out of it alive, most of the couples would just split. But those who do would realize that they're right for each other. Good luck! Have a great mylot experience ahead!
@chiyosan (30184)
• Philippines
18 Feb 13
Yes, that is true, I do agree with you that no mistakes will not be corrected by another mistake, and yes as a woman you would only be the one that should know how much it hurts and that it is not appropriate to lower ourselves and forgo our values just to be able to get back at someone who cheated on us. Cheating as a revenge is not the way to move on, there are many things we can do so that we can move on.. first is to let go and not put yourself in the situation that would hurt you more.
@Aja103654 (5646)
• Philippines
18 Feb 13
Cheating back on that someone will make us childish, stupid and no better than that cheater. The best thing is to leave that person and get over it. Start anew and learn from the painful experience. I almost gave everything to my ex, luckily, I had an epiphany and began to see what he really is-- a sl-t.
• Philippines
27 Feb 13
If he cheated on me, and I knew it already, then there's no use of staying. I'll be moving on without him and find someone who deserves my love. Well, I know I deserve to be happy and that means a life without the person who hurt me. Even though, I wanted him to feel the pain I felt when he cheated on me, cheating back on him will never be an assurance that he will also be hurt as much as I do. So, it'd be better to move on and find my own happiness rather than be trapped with the pain he caused me.
• Philippines
28 Feb 13
Been cheated by the partner whom I trusted my whole life with but I did not choose to cheat back. After crying my hearts out, I prayed and I tried to moved on. Then after few months, he came back and repent. I still accepted him because we are married and gave him another chance.
@zelnut (39)
• Dubai, United Arab Emirates
20 Jul 13
What I think that I would do is to leave her as she mostly would have had an affair if she didn't want me.So the best decent way to put it right would be to leave her at her will and as of me to start a new life.
@leateagee (3667)
• China
17 Feb 13
Oh, he did that? I won't even cry. Strong me but he didn't respect me. He isn't the only man in the world. I am not a martyr. In the fisrt place we are just lovers. Maybe my opinion will change if we are married. I won't do the same because I am not him. I respect the people I love and who loves me. I trust them and sacrifice for them. If I do that there is something wrong with me. I may not be perfect but he accepted me for who I am so why should I cheat. If he cheated then I will let go. He isn't for me. It hurts but I must do it.
@andy77e (5156)
• United States
17 Feb 13
Absolutely not. When you do wrong things, that reflects only on YOU. Not him. If your spouse cheats on you, that reflects only on your spouse. If your family member robs a bank, do you go out and rob a bank to get back at them? What, so you can end up in prison too? No, you cheating, regardless of reason, is just YOU cheating. You are now a cheater. That doesn't reflect on him, and no one is going to say "Oh that was just fine that you slept around like a hooker, because your spouse...." No.... And girls who do that, regret it for the rest of their lives. No. Absolutely not. I will never cheat on my spouse no matter what they do. No question.
@trisha27 (3494)
• United States
17 Feb 13
I would never stoop that low and cheat on someone that had cheated on me. I would definitely move on. It hurts to be cheated on and yes, he hurt me by cheating I would still not want to hurt him in the same way. But forget about making things work, but he would be out of my life forever. For the way he betrayed me. I have been cheated on so many times and it is hurtful and I have never once turned around and did the same to them. Instead I just left them and never went back to them. But I am ever grateful that my husband has been faithful to me and has never cheated on me at all and that is something that I don't have to worry about. Because I know he would be faithful to me. But if he were to cheat on me then I would definitely be filling for divorce in a heart beat.
• India
16 Feb 13
Doing the same to her/him is not going to change him/her, then why should we change ourselves for the sake of others. Its like if somebody has cheated you and you are punishing yourself for the same. Once you do it there is no difference between you two. So why spoil ourselves for the mistakes of others ?
@theselan (74)
• Malaysia
16 Feb 13
Very simple. Listen to her/him problems and ask them to explain why do he/she cheated on me. If she admits that she is wrong without a strong reason, then let her go. Once a cheater always a cheater. Forget about them and start your new life once again and be grateful to god to show me the true face of them and you are now free from them and no need to be worried any more and never ever accept them back into your life. That is a positive way. If you are thinking off taking revenge, just go to her/him as normal and let them be crazy on you by your love and at the same time, try to know his weakness point- financially and family. Take revenge on him/her with your love and ask for money and property if you are clever enough to play game on him and take it as advantage for you. Enough money and break up and wake like a boss. heheheehe
• India
16 Feb 13
If something like that happen to me I will be happy to kick the cheater one out of my life and even to not give him value of revenge.... but if I get time and ability of doing revenge, properly I will hire a playful female to cheat him. But I think it is better that if we could know somebody is not good and now is out of our life we do not waste more emotions and feelings or wasting time on that cheater one.
• Poland
18 Feb 13
I would end that relationship no matter how important that person was to me. I wouldn't cheat back. I wouldn't even shout at him. I'd just say that I'm dissapointed and I would left him siletly. No crying, no shouting, like he was never important to me. I wouldn't let him have satisfaction from hurting me.
• Philippines
17 Feb 13
I'm the type of person who do not forgive easily. I always tell my boyfriend that if I caught him with another girl, then it is goodbye for us. I will never ever cheat on him just because He cheated on me. I think it is not a good thing to cheat on him as a form of revenge. I will break up with him the first time he hurt me. I won't give a second chance and then eventually I will erase all my memories of him to move on and find a better guy.
@chiyosan (30184)
• Philippines
16 Feb 13
Hi there... i wont cheat because i have been cheated on. No i would absolutely mot dare go down to that level and lose all the values i have with me to get back to someone who hurt me. The only way to get back at him is not to allow him to hurt me further by staying with him. I have just been cheated on and he was a boyfriend of four years.. imagine how my world crumbled but i have my pride and i had cleared it out worth him before that there is no second chance for a cheating guy like him. Might as well try it again and risk with another guy than be scared hell on when he will next bite me on the back painting the town red by him cheating on me. So i was firm no matter what he did to try to make me come back to him. This decision is best and at least now i have known that what i did was right because i am better now without a cheating boyfriend.
@pals101 (2010)
• Philippines
16 Feb 13
Hatred and Revenge - is never an easy road for someone who is cheated. It will only worsen the situation, Forgiveness is the right key, and just pray for him/her in our Lord our God. Everything has a purpose in life, you just have to trust the Lord.
@jenny1015 (13366)
• Philippines
16 Feb 13
I don't think that getting back at him that way would make any difference. I'd just move one
@pomwango (1353)
• Kenya
16 Feb 13
i would break off the relationship and move on with my life, there is no point of getting my hands dirty for such a person.two wrongs never make a right just forget about them and move on.
@aqirock (855)
• Malaysia
16 Feb 13
should I do the same? if yes then I just same like him why need to do the same thing that he did to you that's show you are no different then him, anyway if can't go on with this relationship which you always suspect him, better just break up