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Topics: Sex and Relationships, Reddit, Life
Chelsea Connor
Topics: Sex and Relationships, Reddit, Life
Relationships are a complex practice, as most of them will be thrown into difficult situations at one time or another, left to be tested with how you handle them together as a couple.
An anonymous Reddit user posted about cheating on his wife in a regrettable ‘drunken one night fling’ years ago, but after finding out she’s giving him a taste of his own medicine – readers are undecided on the morality of the messy predicament.
The 32-year-old man admitted to cheating on a night out three years ago, but thought all was well after his wife forgave him and they put the pieces back together in couples therapy.
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However, it seems not all was truly forgiven as he went through his wife’s phone and found her engaging in an affair, but she justified it by pointing out that ‘he did it first and set a precedent for allowing infidelity in the relationship'.
In the forum thread called ‘off my chest’, he posted that he wasn’t entirely sure what to do and questioned whether this is what he deserved for cheating first, and looked for advice from site user’s as to whether he should be ‘okay’ with his wife have an affair or not.
Which has people polarised in their opinion, as he drunkenly cheating once, while she is reportedly entered a new relationship with another man.
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He posted: “She forgave me for cheating once, and we went to marriage counselling, but three days ago, while my wife was in the shower, I went through her phone and found the texts confirming she was cheating. I felt so betrayed so I confronted her after she got out of the shower.
She claims that it’s ok because I cheated on her and I set the precedent for allowing infidelity.'
'She got mad and stormed off. She left for work Friday and I haven’t seen her since. I know she’s with him and it hurts. I feel I deserve this but at the same time I want my wife back,' he expressed.
Finishing the post with the pleading question 'What do I do?'
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Comments quickly flooded in with user’s, at times very strong, opinions on the situation.
One comments said:“ She didn't forgive you. she just stopped talking about it.”
“Especially when you are the cheater. You are, quite simply, the first one to know, 'it's over'."
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Another person said: 'Well this relationships is dead. Be grateful you don't have kids."
Another commented “'Why people try to hang on to this type of toxicity is completely beyond my understanding. Absolutely, the relationship is beyond dead. He slit its throat she she finished the job.”
“Relationship was dead as soon as you thought she forgave you. Somebody once said even if you get her back, it’ll never be the same," one commented.
Is her behaviour valid? Is ‘an eye for an eye’ ever healthy?