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Why Do People Stay After Their Partner Cheats?

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There are over 7 billion people in the world, and even if only 1% of those people were in your relationship range, you’ve got plenty of options, why would you stay with someone who cheated? Studies show once a cheater, always a cheater.

“ … prior infidelity emerged as an important risk factor for infidelity in next relationships.”

I’ve been the person who stayed with a cheater years ago, and we had a good relationship for the 15 years following, however, it definitely tainted the relationship along the way.

I’m not a relationship person, it seems like the rewards don’t exceed the effort you have to put in, and it’s too popular, there’s a generalization that everyone wants a relationship and it's simply not true.

I’ve heard one woman say to me that she felt another woman didn’t like her because she was “jealous she was married.” Who the hell is jealous someone is married?

I wanted to ask if she could accept the fact that she wasn't a likeable person, then could she also accept the possibility that the other women simply didn’t like her as a…

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