Cheating ???

I have no clarity of your queastion. Do you mean a business partner or a life partner ? We have to see both in different angles. Both cheatings are cheating only . But we can forgive a business partner. But the wounds by the cheating of a life partner cannot forgive or forget so soon.

I have had someone cheat on me before. If he had done it with anyone other than my best friend at the time, I would have forgiven him. But he chose to cheat with my best friend, who I thought of as a sister. So, I cut both of them out of my life. I just couldn't forgive either of them. I have cheated one time and it wasn't even really cheating. I had broken up with the guy, but he refused to accept that until after I was with someone else. Then he "dumped" me for cheating. So, I don't think I cheated, but he did. I have also been "the other woman" before. I was in a 5 year affair with a married man. It wasn't right but that is how it was.

I've never cheated on anyone, but I have been cheated on. I'll tell you, it's not fun. Remembering that feeling, it's what keeps me from ever wanting to cheat on my wife or anyone I dated in the past. Now, forgiveness, it's something different. The girl who cheated on me was my high school/college girlfriend. We were dating for 7 years and seemed to be pretty stable, good as friends and good as a couple. But after she cheated on me, it took me a long time to forgive cause of the hurt. I eventually did forgive her, but I've never forgotten. We are actually pretty good friends again, much like we were before we dated. It's not easy nor does it happen right away, but forgiveness was key for me, just to get closure on it and let it go.