Do women who cheat deserves what they get?

@zandi458 (28102)
Malaysia
May 4, 2007 7:01am CST
My friend has been having an afffair for 25 years. She is still married to her husband and keeping the affair. Her reason for not divorcing her husband is because of her children. I told her it is very unfair on the husband and the children to have partial love from her. Now that the children are grown up, her relationship with the husband has gone from bad to worse. Am not trying to be busy body but I am just wondering how one can content with that guilty feeling and act as is their is no 2nd party involved. Does she deserves to be called a mother when she does not show a good example to the children?
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@rhinoboy (2129)
4 May 07
I don't know whether she is a bad mother, she may treat her children well. In essence, she is a very decitful person. I cannot agree with adultery under any circumstances. The deed is very common in the Uk, where I live, but I don't see the point in it. If you are not happy with a partner, it is always better to leave them. My wife and i have been together since we were very young. We both recognised that although we love eachother and want to be together, we cannot guarantee that forever. I vowed that i would never cheat on her. if I ever fell out of love with her or in love with somebody else, I would respect her enough to end our relationship first. You cannot use children as an excuse either. Children would much rather have parents who are separated and happy than together and miserable.
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@zandi458 (28102)
• Malaysia
4 May 07
I think the reason she stay put in this marriage is simply for security reason. The children is just an excuse for her to squeeze $ for the other poor fellow. If parents can't be happy with each other, how do they expect the kids to act? Imagine the mental torture they go through, seeing their parents arguing all the time.
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@rhinoboy (2129)
18 May 07
Thanks for best response. I was brought up by a single mother and just called it like I seen it.
@liranlgo (5752)
• Israel
19 May 07
This is a very complicated situation that you are writing about. I do not think that a good mother has to due with the fact that she is having an affair. If i read right, you said that she says that she does not want a divorce because of the children. Maybe they do not know, and she is keeping it as a secret. Anyway she does care and love them and tries to give them what ever they need, doesnt she? It is becoming a problematic situation as we get older, there is always the issue of security and old habits that we have a hard time leaving, like a marriage. Does her husband know? Is the person that she is having a romance with also married, there are alote of answers and questions here that i do not know. I know that if they are married for so long, and not getting an divorce, there is a reason that we do not know, because we do not live with them. But i do hope that everything will turn fine.
@liranlgo (5752)
• Israel
19 May 07
Yes. You are right on this one, it does take alote of acting to succeed in this task..but the person only cheat therselfs, and that is a pitty.
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@zandi458 (28102)
• Malaysia
19 May 07
Children always become the scapegoat in a marital problem. After all this while I think the husband should have felt and know something is not right but turn to blind eye simply because he has not caught her redhanded. The other participating sinner (as we call it) is a married man too. How this triangle love story survive is up to everybody guess. I could figure out, for the sake of money she stay put and pretend to be innocent inorder to get what she wanted. It takes a good deal of acting to be in this situation. Don't you think so?
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@ESKARENA1 (18260)
18 May 07
i think anyone who cheets in a relationship deserves all that they get and it can never be positive blessed be
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@zandi458 (28102)
• Malaysia
18 May 07
Yes you're right on this.
@jennybianca (12912)
• Australia
5 May 07
I don't think I would want to make a moral judgement on this. All I can say is that your friend will end up the looser in the long run. It's not so much the children, as I gather she kept this affair secret from them. It is the effect this will have her husband when he finds out... and this in the long run will hve detrimental effects on your friend.
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@zandi458 (28102)
• Malaysia
18 May 07
no matter where the story ends women are always the looser.
@joice86 (1078)
• Philippines
18 May 07
cheating wives! - Cheaters
Yes, she is still a mother to her kids. Even if, she is not doing the right thing. Just wondering how can she handle that situation for 25 years. If I were her, I will just end up the relationship with my husband. I know my kids will understand me for that instead of committing a sin.
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@zandi458 (28102)
• Malaysia
18 May 07
25 years is not a short period of being on the wrong track. She must have her reason for staying in that loveless marraige.
• Philippines
18 May 07
I also have female friends who have illicit affairs. I don't tolerate it but I can feel the burden that they carry. They always have this guilt feeling inside, when they profess affection to their husbands despite being involved with another man. I don't think I can handle it. Suffice it to say that these women have different reasons of their own as to why they get entangled with extra marital affairs. As for me, I just mind my own business because it is not for me to condemn. Peace to all.
@zandi458 (28102)
• Malaysia
18 May 07
Sometimes being a bit busybody can help a friend in need.
@Shaun72 (15959)
• Palatka, Florida
3 Jun 07
I think that this is awful. Of course my ex husband did this to me. i am so glad I figured him out before a lot of years went by. I sometimes miss him but realize staying with him and forgiving him that I could never ever trust him again.
@Shaun72 (15959)
• Palatka, Florida
3 Jun 07
Well we sort of made everything ok before I divorced him. He left me though to move in with his knew wife so some women are just as bad. I have known the woman that he left me for for years.
@zandi458 (28102)
• Malaysia
3 Jun 07
Men are like that all over. Probably you can talk things over.
@msjigga (864)
• United States
19 May 07
I dont think her being a Mother has anything to do with her personal life. I thinks is selfish and wants the best of both worlds. I think her husband should have left her because clearly they are living a lie and that is not healthy for the kids even grown kids.
@zandi458 (28102)
• Malaysia
19 May 07
For how long can they sustain living in lie. It is complicated to be living in a fantasy world like her, full of guilty consciousness.
@leeesa (884)
• United States
4 May 07
I don't think it's anyone's place to judge. I am not condoning affairs, but just because she is in one, doesn't mean she isn't a good mother. I do believe in Karma and I'm sure she is living a very unhappy life, in spite of what it may seem on the outside.
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@zandi458 (28102)
• Malaysia
4 May 07
Though a flirt she is exceptionally a responsible mother. Responsible in a sense that she would not involve them in her loveless marriage to their dad. But growing up in this environment will make them view life differently.
@golfproo (1839)
• Canada
19 May 07
This sounds exactly like the situation I have going on in my own life. My wife has done basically the same thing. When talking about her family she will openly talk about her daughters, but make no mention of me. It is not a good situation. We are still together in the same house for the sake of the girls and for financial reasons. However, I am now living in a life of misery. Not sure how people can be so cruel to somebody they once loved enough to get married, have kids etc...
@zandi458 (28102)
• Malaysia
19 May 07
I feel sad for you. Why don't you have a heart to heart talk with your wife? She might be able to shed some light as to why she is doing this sort of misery to you. I salute your tolarancy towards your troubled wife. Pray for god's intercession. It may take a long time for prayers to be answered but surely God have mercy on his children.