I want to knock on wood, pray to baby Jesus the Black and the White one, go in a trance that I never have to know the betrayal of a husband in the form of another woman having my husband’s baby. We have planned not to have any more children. By we I mean I made the decision and my husband supported it. I don’t know what would have happened if we weren’t on the same page. For me it came down to the lack of wanting to go through the newborn phase, being pregnant in the first place and my health.
Cheating is not an option to me in marriage let alone a baby. I feel like everyone has a right to their list of what they will or will not tolerate and for me cheating is a deal breaker. I think you end up pouring salt in the open wound if by cheating whether male or female and a baby is formed from that sexual bond. I can’t even begin to explain the level of disrespect and how that would send me into a fit. Have I been cheated on before? Yes. Am I with the man who cheated? No. It is just not tolerable for me. I keep seeing stories on television, and in real life of this happening. Let’s keep it real, men and women been cheating since Jesus was a baby. I try my best not to judge as I don’t really know what I would do if I was in the same situation. Can people change? Absolutely they can if THEY want to. I watched a woman go off on a man who fathered a child outside of their union. The way she was giving him the business I had to remember that it wasn’t my issue because I was on the low feeling some type of way. The type where I had to put down my own pitch fork and not attack my own husband on sight for another man’s discretion. The hurt in her eyes and voice was enough to break me and I am not even in a relationship with the woman.
How can a man or woman who sees this devastation continue the pattern of hurt and abuse. I know the answer is hurt people hurt people but the reality is we have to call a spade a spade. People once they see you will tolerate certain bad behaviors will continue to do the same as they have always done. A baby is nothing to play games with. Think about the couple who has been trying and then that man or woman goes and gets pregnant or impregnate another woman leaving the one in the relationship feeling hurt and empty. A baby is a lifetime bill, and lifetime responsibility. I can’t say even with all of my knowledge I would be able to just blend another family to mine like that? Call me Petty Wap because I just can’t see it. Babies cost money so that means that the child fathered or mothered outside of the marriage or relationship is taking away from the central home. It’s never the child’s fault. However I have heard people jump on others for not willing to accept the child and go on like it’s all good. Some can’t get over it to the point where they function as a unit and just simply move on. I think every situation is different. I mean in times where this even comes up in the back of my mind I hear whoop ass. I would hear divorce papers. I would hear taking the kids and rolling. I mean you can’t tell me you wouldn’t think of at least one of those scenarios. Its human nature.
Why do we tend to forget that especially ladies? We judge harshly if a woman stays but often times we are dealing with our own issues and stay even when things don’t look or sound right in our own situations. How do we forget that? Love is simple but the repercussions of taking and engaging in love aren’t always so black and white. When you love you take on some grey from time to time. This is not an argument to just take whatever is dished. I think we all have our breaking points and at some point we end things. It may take a few frogs to get there. For my ladies as much as we want to blame the other “heifer” remember there were two people involved. If you are married the one to go after is your husband. You have no idea what lies were told to her to get her in the bed. Men will say things like I am leaving my wife. Ladies, its cheaper to keep her always remember that. Most men aren’t going to elect to break up their home for a side piece. They just wanted to know if they still got it and for most men ain’t nothing better than some new……
Yeah i am trying to spare the church mothers who may read this the ending of that last line. I am not saying that if you have a friend that betrayed you and slept with your man you wouldn’t feel a certain way. However I am saying we give men passes and go straight for the woman involved. Why give your man a pass? Why? So he gets off free and only sustains a few silent treatments, arguments, and a few yelling matches, and he’s good?
Marriage is respectable. I really would rather my husband divorce me to be with someone else than to cheat on me. I really would. Like hey come tell me you want out and let’s get you out than for me to find out that you out here making romantic getaways, bending some woman over in a car or some sleazy hotel or even in her home while I am at home with your kids. I can say that for me because that’s how I would feel. I am not the built-in sitter while you go and do your thing and leaving me with the possibility of a baby or even worst a STD. Let me warn some of my men and women who play dumb. A condom is a barrier which is not 100%. Let me repeat that, condoms will not protect all of your sexual organs. I want to live a healthy life so if my husband put my life in jeopardy that’s the disrespect.
I was on a social media one day and a newly single friend of mine made the comment that his married friends were “worst” than his single friends while they were out. I believe that. It makes me nervous because in love there’s always room for betrayal. I am not suggesting they should go hand in hand but I do believe you open yourself up to that hurt by loving someone. Married men or women to be honest feel the need to fight to be free. Why not just get out? Oh yeah you don’t want to pay to play. You don’t want to figure out child visitation schedules. You don’t want to have your family ripped up because your clit got hot or your penis got stimulated. Interesting. You would rather roll the dice and hope the love of your life is just one of the ones willing to play Russian Roulette with you?
Let me speak on reconciliation. Even though cheating is my deal breaker it doesn’t mean that I don’t have 5 seconds belief that people can work hard from the point of divorce and make it work. It can happen. Trust me it can. However that is a lot of work. Most people will not be willing to do the work. I spoke to a friend who I won’t mention by name but she told me that her husband cheated. She said that in the beginning, he was all in. They were in counseling. He took the lock off his phone. He wined and dined her. He brought her gifts. Then when he felt like he had paid his debt and she should be over it, he went back to the same things that lead to the infidelity in the first place. He no longer opened up in counseling. He locked his phone tighter than a national bank. He began taking calls on his cell away from her. He went back out and coming home at 6am with no calls as to his whereabouts. If you cheated on someone if you really mean to change you keep the change. You don’t get to put an expiration on it. If you do it only shows you were attempting to give a band-aid instead of the necessary surgery to provide real healing. She said it was at that moment that she filed for divorce and let it stick. He came back with the same tactics when she filed. He wanted to be a better man. However better wasn’t in him. You can’t get what’s not in a person to give. Every actor has to lay their part done. He laid his down and she left.
IF you are a cheater and haven’ been caught please understand the old saying, nothing hidden that won’t be revealed. It simply means what’s done in the dark will come to the light. If you think you are above slipping you are sadly mistaken. When you get caught if you know you have no intentions on changing with real change than say that and give that man or woman who so they can then do what is best for them. Do not bring your mate on a journey wasting yours and their time when you know you still want to do your dirt. Do your dirt and figure out a way to be a family under the new terms of a separate house. If you cheat it’s not meant for you to live harmonsly like nothing happened. You have to suffer. For every action there is a reaction. You can’t be looking for a loving response after that. Both spouses need to be willing to work. If you say you forgive but you still bring it up than you haven’t forgiven. Let me break one thing down on the forgiveness talk, if you are the one who cheated and you are still doing questionable actions than YOU can’t use the whole forgive me response when you know you still acting suspect. Align your actions to be honorable that way when it comes up you have an answer that is satisfactory. You can’t still creep and tell your mate stop treating me like I cheated but your actions say you are cheating. Accept that. Stop trying to win the fight when you already lost the war. Do better and knock it off or decide to part ways and then find someone if you can find them who will be okay with you having more than one sexual partner. That is key. You can’t just find someone who is okay with you being newly single and not committed. They have to understand that you intend to be in other sexual relationships and be okay with it too.
