Random Reasons Why People Cheated On Their Significant Other (15 items)

• (#1) This Cheater Was Able To Reunite With A Former Flame

  From Reddit user tsbae: 

  "A few years ago, I met this amazing guy. Let's call him Guy A. Fell very much in love with him, he was so kind and sweet. We kissed a few times and hooked up once, but he was starting to see this other girl, so it never went further than that. I was pretty heartbroken over it.

  Fast forward a few years. I'm a year and a half into this horrible relationship. We'll call him Sh*thead. Sh*thead is a compulsive liar, yells at me, threatens to break up every time I do something he doesn't like, like whenever I had a panic attack.

  I'm at a concert without Sh*thead and I look across the dance floor, and I see Guy A, dancing his heart out, laughing and just being amazing. Hadn't seen him since the time we hooked up, which was a few years ago. My heart skipped a beat. I approached him, we talked for hours, and I told him I was living with a really sh*tty guy and that I wanted out. When he kissed me good bye, I just knew.

  I continued the relationship with my Sh*thead for about a week (while still seeing the other guy on the side) before I finally worked up the courage to break up with him.

  I've been with Guy A ever since, and haven't looked back once."
• (#2) His Boyfriend Abused Him And Accused Him Of Cheating So He Decided To Do What He Was Accused Of

  From Reddit user Zarbi92 255:

  "He kept accusing me of cheating all the time, beating me for it, would never believe me that I wasn't. For about a year he would do this, accuse me, beat me until he was satisfied with my punishment, and then tell me he forgave me for a week or so. After a year or so of this I started getting emotionally connected to a friend of his sister and sister's wife. We never slept together, kissed, or did anything physical. We didn't even talk about anything physical. But he took me on a few dates. I figured since I'm being punished for it and he won't believe me that I'm not, I might as well just do it. He also informed me that I was being abused and that good men do exist. I still feel awful about it. The fact that I knew what I was doing was wrong but at the same time, those dates were amazing and gave me the confidence to leave my ex...

  Also it turned out he was cheating the whole time."
• (#3) He Cheated Because He Fell In Love At First Sight

  From Reddit user optimaloutcome:

  "I was young, 19. I had been with a girl for a year when my parents decided I needed to pay rent, so I found a roommate and got an apartment. Day one, I go to the office to turn in my walk through paperwork. The girl in the office made my heart skip. She made me a believer in the idea of love at first sight.

  She moved in across from my apartment a couple weeks later and we started to hang out. One night we slept together. The next day I broke up with my girlfriend. Me and new girl talked and we both wanted to be together.

  She moved in with me a month later. That was 17 years ago. She's currently asleep upstairs next to our daughter."
• (#4) She Was An Unknowing Accessory To Cheating

  From Reddit user PeanutPhotography:

  "I was the mistress in a marriage. The guy was an old bf from high school; we dated off and on. When we were off he would date this girl Kelly, and when we broke up for the final time he went and married her. Almost a year after we broke up, I was back in town on summer break from college and ran into him at my summer job.

  He gave me this sob story about how Kelly wanted a divorce and was taking his kid from him. I (stupidly) believed him, we exchanged numbers, started talking daily. He invited me over to 'his' apartment, showed me his divorce paperwork, and ultimately things got sexual for a couple weeks.

  One day I swung by to pick up a pair of earrings I'd forgotten the day before. His best friend from high school answered the door. I asked if guy was around, best friend said no why would he? Turned out Guy was actually house sitting for best friend, it wasn't his apartment. Best friend also informed me that Guy and Kelly were in the process of BUYING A HOUSE, their marriage was fine.

  I was livid and disgusted. I went to work the following day, and in walks Kelly. I ask her what she's doing later that night and if she's available to talk. We meet up after I get off and I lay it all out for her. She teared up a bit, but ultimately she was pissed. She gives me their address and tells me to show up there unannounced the next day.

  I do and Guy is white as a sheet trying to get me to leave. Kelly shows up and they end up in a screaming match. So Guy ended up getting divorced and settled with a chunk of child support because Kelly informed the right people about Guys pot plants. None of us talk anymore. When I think about it, I have to shower at least twice."
• (#5) He Fell In Love With Someone Else On A School Trip

  From Reddit user vipros42:

  "Was living with my girlfriend at university. Towards the end of my degree I had a field trip abroad and a good friend and I realized we maybe would have liked to be more than that. Got home, said to my gf that I wasn't sure things were working and I needed some time. We had our finals to do and I didn't want to screw those up for her so didn't dump her out right . Meanwhile the other girl and I got closer and a few things happened.

  Eventually, after our exams were done I broke up with my gf, adamantly denying there was someone else. Now, 12 years later me and the other girl have been married for five years, and my ex is married to a woman."
• (#6) Her Husband Had A Serious Drug Habit...But Her Coworker Didn't

  From Reddit user Avocadoavenger:

  "I had an affair with a coworker who was significantly older than me. We were both in very unhappy relationships - he with a woman who's spending habits spent them into multiple mortgages and me with a man that was rapidly developing a serious drug habit. It took about a year before anybody caught on. Coworkers started noticing, he eventually ended up in a round of layoffs. I got caught first and my boyfriend moved out. Not long after that, he filed for divorce from his wife and moved in with me. It was a vicious divorce that ended up lasting years. We've been married for 10 years now and are still very happy. His ex is doing great also."
• (#7) Both Parties Cheated And Then Realized That An Open Relationship Works Better

  From a former Reddit user:

  "He cheated on me, things weren't going great. I decided to go cheat as well. It took no time before we opened the relationship and things have been better in terms of that since."
• (#8) She Was Unhappy And She Didn't Respect Her Husband

  From Reddit user The_Two_Trees:

  "I was in a dud of a marriage. I married too young and against my better judgment. My husband was a controlling and sexually repressed man who did not respect me and I did not respect him.

  I found out that my husband was on dating sites and talking to women online attempting to solicit dates. He was actively seeking to cheat and the only thing stopping him from taking it to a physical realm was the fact that none of the women were interested in him.
  We worked on our marriage over the years to try to resolve his online cheating, but he'd always start up again. Eventually I got so emotionally worn out by it that I just didn't have it in me to care much anymore.

  I met a man at work who I was instantly attracted to on a mental and a physical level -something I'd never had with my husband. We started out with harmless conversations and became work friends. We then found excuses to text each other when not at work. We'd grab lunch together here and there...at first with groups and then with just the two of us. I couldn't wait to go to work every day and see him. I thought about him all the time. I knew I was heading toward dangerous ground but I didn't want to stop.

  We started flirting and I began to sneak away from home to meet up with him for hikes, dinner, you name it. I met up with him for hours at a time on evenings and weekends, and my husband never really noticed because his attention was always occupied with his friends or his online chats with women.

  My friend from work and I were always careful not to make physical contact, until one day in his car when he leaned over to help me with my jammed seat belt and he kissed me. It was the most amazing thing I'd ever felt in my life.

  Over the next few weeks meeting up to have dinner turned into meeting up to find a secluded spot and make out in his car. Then that eventually turned into groping, hand jobs, oral sex...you get the idea. I could not get enough of this guy.

  I felt tremendously guilty the entire time because I never thought of myself as the type who would cheat. I came clean with my husband before my affair progressed any deeper. I broke off the affair and agreed to try marriage counseling."
• (#9) Her Cheating Partner Enticed Her With Settlers Of Catan and Mozzarella Sticks

  From Reddit user littlelighteninggirl:

  "My ex-husband and I weren't even sleeping in the same room when I met my affair. Ex just wasn't interested in sex - and it was causing so many fights because I was so unsatisfied.

  I met my affair on WoW, and we knew each other for about a year and had never flirted or anything like that. One day I found out that he had Settlers of Catan and mozzarella sticks... and lived an hour and a half away. I hopped in the car and drove down and we hit it off really well.

  He didn't know I was married at the time. I really needed to get laid... it had been about six months. At least.

  The affair never ended. Or I guess it officially ended when my divorce was finalized. He and I are married now and have been together for six years."
• (#10) He Cheated To Be With Someone Who Was Basically His Twin

  From Reddit user RedPantyKnight: 

  "I just met someone so much better for me. I met someone that was basically my female twin and we hit it off instantly. I ended up breaking up with the girl I was with and dating her for 6 months. Turns out there's such a thing as [being] too much alike."
• (#11) This Deployed Soldier Cheated To Get Back At His Wife

  From Reddit user altacctforperversion: 

  "When I was deployed to Iraq, my wife cheated on me at least three times. (She was the one to tell me about it.) It hurt like hell and we worked through it, for the most part.

  When I was stationed overseas by myself a few years later, I started an affair with a female service member. It lasted six months. At the time, I justified it as 'getting even.' But now, I feel terrible about it. It's done and over with, and I'll never tell her what happened."
• (#12) This Cheater Thought She'd Found A Lover And A Friend

  From Reddit user Crossbowsaint:

  "Started with drinks after work and ended when I was in love and he wasn't.

  My relationship was ending when I met him. We became good friends and told each other all about how messed up our current relationships were. The night it went too far was after drinks, a kiss in a bar and a DUI; I bailed him out. After we slept together the first few times I ended things with my boyfriend. He always said he was going to break up with his girlfriend and he never did.

  Long story short, it was months and months of him telling me he wanted to be with me and loved me and months and months of him not doing anything about his current situation. When he finally did break up with her he stayed with me for a few weeks and things were great. Then in a company wide meeting (yup, coworkers) he texted me to tell me he was getting back together with her.

  A year later and a half later, I am married to someone else and they are still together."
• (#13) This Cheater Was Unfaithful Because The Opportunity Presented Itself In The Form Of A Math Tutor

  From Reddit user _chunkysalsa:

  "Started with tutoring me in math back in high school while I had a serious girlfriend (for high school). I ended up living a double life where everything I did with my math tutor I would end up doing with my girlfriend as well at a later point. It got so bad with the math tutor that I went on vacation with her and told my girlfriend I was going to see family. After I graduated I cut things off with both of them and through some sort of witchcraft after they found out about each other I was able to stay friends with both of them."
• (#14) He Started An Emotional Relationship Because He Thought He'd Never Encounter The Woman In Real Life

  From Reddit user RedBombX:

  "[I] was in a five-year relationship with my girlfriend at the the time. I started to talk to an old coworker from my teens that I always had a thing for, but she lived a couple states away so I knew nothing would come of it. Well, it turns out that she still had family in my area and regularly visited.

  We made plans to get some dinner and catch up, for old times' sake. It ended in both of us getting drunk, renting a hotel room and having some fun. This happened a few times over the next several months until I get a text from her... It's a picture of a sonogram of our child.

  I was going to come clean to my gf, because I never had a father growing up and I didn't want to put my child through that. However, she ending up losing it a month or so into the pregnancy and we stopped talking.

  It left me feeling very guilty and anxiety stricken. 0/10 would not do again."
• (#15) He Kept Cheating With His Significant Other's Friend Because He Didn't Want To Ruin The Two Girls' Friendship

  From Reddit user CaptainLeviA:

  "I feel like I have no excuses to offer for the reason I cheated on my girlfriend. I was 18 at the time and had been with my girlfriend for three months, and during that time I became close to one of her other friends. Soon I found myself happier with her friend and I started wanting to spend more time with her than with my gf. The reason why I cheated instead of breaking up with my gf was because they were friends for a long time and I didn't want to be the reason as to why their friendship ended. In addition to this I didn't want her to look like a [person] who just moves in on her friend's boyfriend. Overall it seemed like a tricky situation for both of us but we were young and didn't know how to navigate the situation properly."

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