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Francisco hit it right on the head. Cheating is what it is.
Is cheating wrong if a woman has remained with a boyfriend oh-so-long that's verbally abusive and decides to make the leap one night with a guy?
You mean you purported "Dj's" thoroughly cleanse and wash all girls to determine if there's strings attached?
What defines cheating as cheating?
Some say it's when you do something you wouldn't want done to you, yet you do it. That's also called double standards, and selfishness.
Putting one's morals on another relates to what is true of love and relationships, we are in love with the IDEA and/or image of the person.
Think about it. You meet a girl, she's a cheerleader. Since you were young, you've LOVED the cheerleader spirit, their outfits, and the idea of banging a hot cheerleader in her outfit. You met one one day and fall for her, not because of who she is personally, though it might factor in, but due to the hard-wiring you've impounded into yourself over years of Playboys, TV, football, fantasizing and the like.
Alot of the AFC mentality comes from this, too, as men SEE on TV all these supposed sweetheart women. Kelly Kipowski from "Saved by the Bell," "Punky Brewster (who became a major babe), and how ALL magazines portray these women sexually, yet so "princess-like". Compound that with the mental programming of treating people we see as a certain image as a certain way and BAMMO.
On new year's I hooked with a girl who may or may not have had a BF, supposedly, she was getting over her X. Come to find out, the next day she bolts from chillen with me an my friends to go see the other guy. No biggie to me, we'd shacked up naked all night and slammed a few times. All in all fun. Couldn't tell you if she did or didn't, and don't care. It was fun for the time, *I* was single.
The only line I adhere to, over and above how karma does work, is adhering to my own word. Even if I *expect* a girl not to cheat and to have similar values as mine, that's not reality. It's selfish, yes selfish, to expect that someone you're with will be PRECISELY like you and make the same decisions. Only through a relationship do you learn about them. However, to myself, cheating does or does not matter, that's it. If I do, I'll deal with the consequences, and concurrently, so too would I if she did.
It's not an issue worth stressing over, because as much as it might hurt to feel it, you can't prevent another person from doing. That's right, you can't. Sure, you can stomp on the ground, and have a long, crying talk, or even become a prick and make outlandish demands and check or phone, OR, be mature and feel good about yourself and do what feels right. Break up with her, move on if she doesn't share the same values, because ultimately, THOSE are what will determine the success of failure of the relationship.
See reality. See, not the image, but the whole thing. Not just actions, but realize, a person is generally only an image in your mind. Even your friends or family have sides you don't see or haven't seen, that gives you an image of how you relate to them. Your girl is no different. Thus far she might be good, and fun, and say nice things, but that doesn't mean she ISN'T capable of bad or hurtful things, ONLY YOUR IMAGE of her prevents that. Any guy who has found this site or one's like it, KNOW that women have duality of being, where they're a slut or a good girl, and odds are good, if you met her being slutty with you, she can easily be slutty with someone else.
A-Unit