The world age question is why cheat? Men and women both cheat at some point. Some of them cheat because they are getting pay back, and others my do it because they are unhappy. But for most its just that,that's what they wanted to do.
Now don't think, I am saying that all men and women cheat because they don't. So my question is "Why cheat?" I went around and asked some people the question.
I started off with the older men and women at my husbands job. The first hand full of people i asked was 5 men 60-80 years old.
Have you ever cheated?
4 of them answered : Yes. The one man that said no told me he had been with his wife, for over 30 years. And they had gotten married right out of high school and he would find new things about her to fall in love with. So by doing that, he never felt the need to cheat on his wife.
So I go on to ask the 4 men that said yes, my next question.
Why did you cheat?
one guy said he was 100% unhappy in the relationship he was in at the time he cheated. But he couldn't walk away from her, because they had just had a baby. The other men didn't seem to have a real reason, to why they cheated. All three of them said it just happened.
So I took my questions over to 5 women that seemed to have already been talking about what I was there for.
Have you ever cheated?
And what happened next my me a laugh. All 5 of them said "Yes". One of them was really open with me, to why she cheated. Here is the short story. When she was 20 years old she had gotten married to a friend of the family. After two years and a baby,she started to see a change in him. He would come home late and sometimes not at all. She deal with that for a long time, until one day it come out he had been cheating on from day one. Once she was given that information, she went to talk to her mom about it,and her mother's reply was.. "Well baby your father cheated on me, for the first 5year of our marriage." She went on to tell me, that back in her and her mother's day, they didn't believe in walking away from your husband and your family. Getting a divorce back wasn't even something married people talked about, and if someone did get one.. The woman and he kids (if she had any) would be talked about. She said " that after that talk with her mom, she didn't want to be looked at as a outcast. One day when she was 25 she started a new job and it was a man there that would flirt and complement her all of the time. Cutting right to it, she started sleeping with that man. 3 years she did this, going back and forward from hotel to hotel, in and out of his home and sometimes at work. And the only thing that made her stop was, he wanted to be with her full on. He wanted for her to divorce her husband and take the kids and be with him. She told me, she just couldn't do that. She loved her husband and didn't want a divorce, she just wanted to feel loved and cared for without the string being added.
After that I said "Thank you", to everyone one and moved on to some other people.
For two more days I asked people the same questions and for the people who said yes to my question, the reason for doing it was, he/she cheated on me or I wasn't getting what I needed at home or just I don't know.. Things happen. I also asked "Why stay?" and believe it or not a lot of people answered the same way. I wanted to work on my family, I love him/her, that other person didn't mean anything to me.
So here is how I fell about it all. Just because you have a child with a person doesn't mean, they have the right to treat you wrong. People will only treat you the way you let them. You can't let someone walk all over you time and time and time again . If you're unhappy or not getting what you need from home, you can (A. Talk to the person you are in a relationship with, let them know how you're feeling. Put it out there for them, so you both can work on it and try to make things better. Or (B. Walk Away! No one is putting a gun to your head and making you stay. It's always a way out. When you cheat you take away the other persons choice on if they want to stay or go, or even if they want to change or not. You take away the choice when you do it and then never come clean about it or you wait until it's to late and they have to know. And for the ones who just can't seem to be faithful and know this to be true for themselves, just don't get into a relationship until you work on yourself first.
So over all if you're not happy, not getting what you need/ want or just flat out can't be faithful. Don't cheat ... Just walk away!
Think before you cheat.
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