All Things Cheated

I am a woman perplexed.  I don't understand people, or the way that their minds work.  Or why they're so ridiculously stupid.  

I'm sat at a bar with my workmate when she gets a phonecall from her boyfriend.  I'm sat opposite her studying the menu, but I can clearly see something is wrong, she's frowning a lot and being really cautious.

"Okaaaay..." she drags out her words as if there's some doubt in them.  It's weird, especially for her.  She finally snaps as some information is told to her; "Right.  Did you?  Right.  Mhmm.  I'll call you later."  The phone is slammed onto the table.  (The only downside to a mobile; you can't just slam the receiver when you're done with the conversation.  You've got to frantically press the end call button before dropping it to the table.  Takes all the drama out of it.)

"He cheated," she tells me before I have chance to ask.  I make her take a shot before telling me what happened.

Turns out, her devoted boyfriend who is always all over her, telling her how much he loves her and getting upset because she doesn't do the same back (she's not very lovey-dovey.  Ever.) went on a night out with work and slept with some girl.

"I could deal with a kiss but that's too much."  After some serious discussion, we reach the conclusion that if he wasn't so drunk that he could still get it up, it meant he was sober enough to know what he was doing, and therefore there was no excuse.  Cheating is cheating.

To me, cheating is always cheating.  Whether you're drunk, sober, bored, planned it or it was spur-of-the-moment.  Cheating is cheating and there's just no need for it.

You're not happy in your relationship? End it.  Not getting any at home? Talk about it or end it.  She's coming onto you? Tell her to get lost, your woman is at home.  There is simply no excuse.

Texting, picture messages and dirty messages count too.  If there is intent it's cheating.  I have no sympathy in this area.

Why do people do it?  Why do they think they'll get away with it?  And why do they always cry, apologise and beg for forgiveness?  No.  You chose to go there, you decided your relationship meant nothing and you threw it away.  You deserve the unhappiness that follows, because the person that you cheated on feels a thousand times worse, and you had no right to make them feel that way at all.

So after 30 something more calls from her (now ex-) boyfriend, he seemed to finally get the hint that he should leave her alone, at least for the rest of the day.  However, it was about 2am by this point (that boy is not bright at all.)  

"There's no way I could forgive that.  A few minutes worth of average sex was worth more to him that I was in that moment.  That's a place I'm not prepared to be."

Hey guys, think about your woman, not your little man yeah?