
Quote by Coco
Thought I'd drop in and congratulate the leader. I obviously don't get the way this works yet because I picked some winners but didn't get the points. Oh well, I guess I'll have to learn before making my next picks. Congratulations LM!
Quote by MadMartigan
Opinion noted. However, at the same time, nothing is worse than the holier than thou types from the older, "wiser", and more "experienced."
Age does not beget wisdom. Nor does it grant the right to marginalize the younger. Just like we aren't aware of your experiences, you are not aware of OUR experiences or the experiences of our friends and families and what we've had to deal with in that regard.
Sorry you feel like others are calling you "scum." But the question was experience with affairs. Most, if not all, answered that and then dug further into our belief regarding the subject. And no, I have and can never have much sympathy for those who knowingly enter affairs with kids involved or carry one out for years.
We all make mistakes. In the heat of the moment, who's to say what any of us would do. At the same time, continuing to go to that place is just...reeks of zero compassion for the wife or husband an individual is hurting each time the affair deepens.
Quote by Kristind
You said, In the end, the only judgment of character that really matters, is my own judgment of myself.
You also said, You're right, cheating is bad. Been there done that and I'm not proud of it.
To finish it off, I know what I did was wrong, but I also know that if I had to do it all over again, I'd make the same choices.
I'm assuming you didn't caught at it...so why not do it all over again? Or you did get caught and were forgiven...with that kind of outcome why not do it all over again? Or you were caught and weren't forgiven...so why not do it all over again. Like carteblanche said...it comes down to character, or lack of it. Our brains are not wired to remember pain and I guess they're not wired to remember our lack of character, either.
I am NOT advocating laws to deal with cheaters but I'm going to say if there were and there was a penalty to accompany cheating on the contract you signed up for, there would probably be less cheating. In fact the entire approach to cheating would be looked at differently because this could land one in a situation they would actually have to pay for. Just like laws for murder, tax fraud, speeding, dui, jaywalking....etc.
You said, I know what I did was wrong, but I also know that if I had to do it all over again, I'd make the same choices.
Nope. No laws judging our character, even your own, even when you know it's wrong.
Quote by CarteBlanche
That sure is a mouthful of 'in your face and I don't give a damn'.
Feelings/hormones/happenstance!
Happenstance?
Cheating is a product of happenstance? And then you follow it up with the great qualifier that it's easy to judge. Yeah go ahead and throw your stones. Murder is bad. Tax fraud is bad. Cheating is bad.
The big difference is murder gets a prison sentence. Tax fraud is judged in many ways and all of them with some kind of penalty. Cheating is not judged this way in a court of law. What court of law? There is no court of law except for the divorce court as lives are turned on their ear and ruined.
The superior attitude is easy to flaunt simply because there is no court except for the public court.
But what it boils down to is if you don't pay your car bill - you end up losing your car. If you you run a red light - either you get a ticket or wipe your brow that you got away with that one. You abuse your kids - society gets involved to protect them and deal with you one way or another.
Cheating? Go ahead and throw your stones you judgmental assholes! Thats just a result of feelings or hormones or happenstance.
No Lady X...cheating is an aspect of character. Or lack of it. Plain and simple.
I know. I was always faithful in my relationships until I cheated on the one woman that I never wanted to lose. My audacious attitude, and yes, it was audacious, that I could get some instant gratification and I could get away with the transgression brought on the most hurtful events of my life as I lost that woman and hurt my kids, not birthed by that woman but the kids loved her just the same.
What it boiled down to was nothing more and nothing less than a lack of character in the moment. A failure to control my feelings - in the moment. Those posting on here and taking the side of "Yeah, I've cheated but don't judge me" or "go ahead and throw your stones" or "yeah, she needed dick so don't be a fucktard and I won't have to dick her" are the ones who simply don't care about their responsibility for their own personal egregious decisions...
...because, it's all happenstance and hormones, right?
No.
The choices we make...in the moment...are the deciding factors of what kind of character we have or...lack.