[quote]pushharder wrote:
[quote]Anonymity wrote:
[quote]pushharder wrote:
Also, the thing is the chick cheated IN PUBLIC. She was caught fucking around in public and even admitted to it WHILE she was engaged.
I’m sorry, but mercy in this case should not be on the table. Maybe if she had privately admitted it to him and asked his forgiveness.
Thing is…chicks that cheat…typically continue to cheat. It’s tough to remove the stripes from a tiger. Trust me, I know.[/quote]
Queue cliche - “An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind”
To me it’s not about demonstrating mercy, but rather showing restraint and control of your own emotions even in the face of blind anger. To me it’s more about not giving into your darker side of vengeance.
Is she deserving of what she got? Absolutely, No question.
But I think it suffices perfectly just to dump her on her ass and never speak to her again.
Everyone would have found out she was a cheating whore anyways when they asked why he dumped her.[/quote]
An eye for an eye here would’ve been him going out and cheating on her. Or beating her up. Or burning her house down. Or doing something to cause her to lose her job.
Being cheated on is one of the most devastating things that can happen to a person. I’m talking about a pre-nuptial or actual matrimonial situation. Run of the mill boyfriend/girlfriend relationships are not in the same ballpark but of course they do still hurt.
But I do hear you and I won’t insist I’m right on this guy’s course of action.
It’d be interesting to get a show of hands as to who has been cheated on and who hasn’t and how that affects your outlook on this phone call deal.[/quote]
I have been cheated on in a non-exclusive relationship, so I don’t think that can really be considered cheating. So that was just a minor ego bruise.
Then I had a GF who I was fairly certain was cheating on me, but never bothered to figure out. I didn’t really need any evidence of that to break up with her, the suspicion was just the final needle in the haystack of a relationship that wasn’t going anywhere to begin with.
But like you said, those are just run of the mill pre-marital, pre-engagment relationships. I can imagine how horrible it is when there is a house, ring, kids, hopes, dreams etc… involved.
I still think I would have handled his situation differently, I mean he wasn’t engaged yet, and even engagements are relatively easy to break off. My best buddy has dealt with that twice now(same girl).