Probably one of some people's worst characteristics or traits is making up lies to cover their cruel lies. The situation they hate the most is when the truth is exposed, which will make them come up with the oddest excuse.
The majority of the time, this happens between romantic relationships, where betrayal happens, and once the cheater is caught, they will make up the dumbest excuse they first think of.
1. The Roommates
Thought it was odd how he never wanted me to come over. He was constantly mentioning living with roommates and that he couldn't have me over.
It turns out those 'roommates' were his wife and her parents. When I was like, ‘'What the heck?'’ And that’s when I heard the oddest excuse.
He said, 'Well, I am married, but we only got married so she could get her green card!' My dumb mind believed him and stayed with him for another five months.
Ghostofmyself3
2. Job Excuse
My friend's dad was stationed in Afghanistan for 2-3 years, and his wife turned out lesbian and was cheating on him with her boss.
My friend said, "I walked into the room, and there was my mother making out with her boss." He told his father, and they had an online video breakup.
She said the following: "I'm sorry, it's just I would've got a huge promotion and our life would've been better." my friend is living with his father now, and I don't know anything about his mom.
NasaFakedTheLandings
3. Back And Forth
A guy I knew blamed his prolific cheating on his girlfriend, not bonding properly with a child he had from a previous relationship (which had ended by his cheating).
She did actually try to be nice to the kid. She was just somewhat ambivalent about kids and didn't want to come across like she was trying to be his "new mum."
At one point, he almost left her, but as soon as they went on a break, he had three different girls on the go (none of whom knew about each other).
He only started to feel a little guilty about what he was doing after one of them started to fall in love with him. He dumped them in succession, rekindled his relationship with his partner, had a kid, and married.
Of course, the cheating never stopped, but eventually, she did wake up to it, and they divorced. Cheaters might try to rationalize what they are doing (often in a way that diverts blame/accountability from themself), but ultimately, they cheat because they are simply scummy people.
Creative_Recover
4. Two Lives
I have a friend in a long-distance relationship who only saw his girlfriend on weekends because she was at an army posting at the other end of the country.
It happened during the week. After some time, he found out his girlfriend was cheating on him with some guy. They had a confrontation about it.
Her explanation: Well, for me, the army and my private life are two different lives, so it makes sense I have two different boyfriends.
Aibeit
5. Multiple Reasons
I’ve heard several personally from the same guy. He texted some girls asking for their friend’s number by saying he eats a mean box. “Oh, come on, it was just a joke.”
He solicited affairs on Reddit: “It was because you were intolerable because of PPD” (even though he’d been on dating apps before I was even pregnant)
Caught with an online dating app. “We just wanted to see what kind of girls were in the area. There were 17 guys in the house. Come on, man, do you think I’d have a girl over?”
And the best, “I never cheated. I never touched anyone” (even his mother repeated this line), but also “look at you. Who wouldn’t cheat on you?”
nopersdopey
6. Worst Friend
I was once friends with this girl in college. She was dating this guy who I was also friends with, and they seemed to get along really well.
We all met up with a couple more friends on Friday evenings to grab dinner and hang out, and I’ve never detected any kind of drama or problems between them.
Months went by, and she came to me one day between classes and wanted to talk to me about “issues” she and her BF were having. She said she slept with another “friend” of hers, and her BF got mad.
I said, “Yeah, he has good reason to be upset. You cheated on him.” I asked her why she did that, and she said her BF was “too nice.” She wanted to try dating a “bad boy” type because she thought he’d be more fun in bed.
Her BF would probably take a bullet for her. He was kind and did all these really nice things for her, and I reminded her about that.
She said she liked what he did for her and stuff, but she wanted to experiment, and she wasn’t sure why he was so upset over “a one-time thing.”
Needless to say, our friendship didn’t last much longer after that, and neither did her relationship with her BF. I haven’t spoken to her in years, but I’m still in contact with her BF. He has a wonderful wife and family now, so he has eventually found the happiness he deserves.
robo-dragon
7. Heartbreaking Belief
My friend "Mike" dated a girl "Melissa" - we all knew she was bad news, but he didn't want to hear it. Melissa enlisted in the army and proceeded to make out with anyone who would have her while she was still dating Mike.
Of course, Mike eventually finds out and calls Melissa out on it. Her response? "Well, you weren't here, and a girl has needs. It's just sleeping together" like it was no big deal.
Mike was crushed. He wanted to MARRY Melissa but finally came to his senses and broke it off. Then, the witch had the AUDACITY to call Mike to ask for $700 for an abortion about six months after their breakup.
It was because she was pregnant and "didn't know who to ask" - i.e., she didn't know who the father was… Real class act, that Melissa. After Mike laughed and said, "Absolutely not," he never heard from Melissa again. Goodbye, good riddance.
[deleted]
8. Tell Me First
My ex-boyfriend told me: "Well, we're in an open relationship, so I thought it was okay." We were together for two years and then went open.
I laid out some ground rules: we don't lie to each other, we tell each other when we have dates, and if we have intercourse, protection is necessary.
I also communicated these rules to our girlfriend (now ex) when she joined us. The two of them ended up leaving my house after a day date to go make out with each other.
They lied to me about it to my face, “I'm just going to drop the girl at her house and then head home to mine,” and then lied to me over the phone when I called to confront them in the lie.
He told me, “Yeah, I dropped her off fifteen minutes ago.” If you thought it was okay, why lie to me? You don't have to lie about things that are fine for everyone.
havvke_
9. Blame On Me
After being in a relationship for five years, she told me someone asked her out and that she said "no" to him. She barely spoke to me the next month or so, claiming she wanted space.
After that, she broke up with me, claiming: "It's not you, it's me, but here are all the reasons it's still your fault I cheated on you."
After saying all that crap statement, she added, "Oh, and it technically isn't cheating because I only slept with him the day after we broke up."
largemeatfries
10. Not Together
“Babe, you can’t be mad. We were broken up!” She had broken up with me 6 hours before this, went and made out with three people, came home the next day, and made up with me.
I then found out about what she did a month later when I accidentally caught her in a lie. I was so devastated upon knowing about it.
We had been together nearly two years, and 18-year-old me was devastated. This was also the girl who made me cut off all of my female friends bc she was “afraid that I would cheat.”
[deleted]
11. Double Trouble
My ex-girlfriend told me about a guy she had dated who was at a hot tub party. A girl in a bikini sat next to him and started flirting.
She sat on his lap and did the deed. It was "her fault" for wearing next to nothing and flirting with him. And now, for one, that happened to me.
Another ex-GF of mine was screwing around. When I found out, she stared at me with feigned surprise and said, "I'm not cheating. I've just decided to be polyamorous, so it's okay."
She also reminded me that I was monogamous, and she expected me to be faithful to her. I walked away and never looked back.
mozart357
12. The Crazy Entity
I was a freshman, and he was a senior. After eight months, he cheated on me with a girl who had just moved to town. His reason: "A higher power told me so." Mm, okay.
Ten years later, we are both in the Marine Corps and stationed on the same base. (Note: I haven't seen him since we broke up in high school).
I was new to the unit, and he felt the need to tell literally everyone I worked with that "We are meant to be together. It was fate that put us together. I'll divorce my wife for her." Needless to say, I told my superiors, and they kept his crazy face away from me.
[deleted]
13. Found Guilty
I found out way later and through other friends that my ex was cheating on me because she thought I was cheating on her. What a reason.
Her excuse was that I was working late and wanted to go to a friend's birthday party that a girl who had (<----HAD) a crush on me would be at.
I chose not to go to the party since my girlfriend threw a temper tantrum over it. But I was still working late, which I was. I work in high-volume production.
We were behind on our numbers and had to make it up. So, because I was working late, coming home, and being thrust right into the parenting life with a 1-year-old, and not hanging out with or talking to anyone out of physical exhaustion, I was cheating on her.
It was easier to figure out she was cheating from hanging out at the bar for 4 - 5 hours at a time, getting home plastered, and she smelled like other guys.
She called me another person's name while making out and finding rather interesting text messages. As much as she wants to say she had planned it all out, the girl's an idiot. She hasn't planned anything farther than 10 minutes into the future.
biomech36
14. King Of Gaslighting
I don’t count it as full cheating. He just downloaded an online dating app, and I have no evidence of him talking to girls (he probably did, and it’s a now-ex, so it doesn’t matter).
He said he thought I was going to break up with him. I was like, why on earth would that be your first reaction if you thought that?
I hadn’t even said anything close to that and had always told him I wasn’t gonna leave. And I stayed true to my word until he left.
Low_Egg_7606
15. After Party
He left the bar earlier, and I stayed with my friends 'cause I offered them a ride home. About an hour or an hour and a half later, I went home.
The lights were off, so I thought he was sleeping and closed the door quietly. I heard heavy breathing and some other sounds and thought that maybe he was watching something.
Well, I surprise him and join. No, definitely not watching 'cause I heard a girl's voice, too. I just stood at the bedroom door until the girl noticed me.
She got up pretty quickly, and I just smiled and waved when she left. I shouted at him that he had 5 minutes to get his things and leave, and he told me that the girl was taking advantage of him. No, mister, certainly not.
Pillupalli123
16. Got Manipulated
“What you didn’t know wouldn’t hurt you.” Except that I had feelings and hurt the whole damn time and knew something wasn’t right but had no proof.
A touch of gaslighting from them made it even harder, and I was hurting the whole time (nearly five years). My “favorite” excuse was the night I finally figured it out when they had a very obvious hickey on their neck.
I questioned them about what happened to see what they’d say, “It’s a bruise I got from helping my sister move today,” except I was there the whole time, and their sister had no big objects, and there were no neck injuries in the process of moving boxes lol.
hurtinownconfusion
17. Queen Brat
We were in college. Her parents were coming into town to buy her a belated birthday dinner. I had an accounting midterm the next morning and really needed to study, so I begged off (for the record, I had already taken her to her favorite restaurant for her birthday).
She woke me up at 2 am - running into my room where I was a resident assistant - to scream, "Since you missed dinner with my parents, I made out with the guy upstairs!"
The guy she had been lusting over for a year. And then she asked to spend the night because he kicked her out when he was done.
Our relationship did not survive....was it the intentional hurting, the grudge-making out, or the offensive, "You didn't do what I wanted, so I get to do whatever I want, and you get to take responsibility for not only my actions but the pain you feel."
Paxdog1
18. Different Mindset
She said, "I figured you could be my at-home boyfriend, and he could be my at-school boyfriend." So I replied, “Ok... then why didn't you ask me if I would be OK with that before you started sleeping with him?” Then she said, "Well, I didn't know if I'd like to make out with him or if I should find another at-school boyfriend who was better first."
The conversation led to me dumping my first serious girlfriend, who went off to college a year before me and cheated within a month.
Yes, she was completely serious about wanting two boyfriends. No, she had never floated the idea of an open relationship or multiple partners before that point, and no, she didn't ask me until after she had been hooking up with this guy.
Crushed me at the time, as teenage love is prone to do, but decades later, I mostly just find it hilarious for being so ridiculous.
She ended up marrying the guy she cheated on me with, though I haven't heard anything about her in years. I wish her and him the best... truly! - no hard feelings left over.
Teenagers are stupid, and our relationship obviously had fatal flaws; I'm glad it crashed and burned so stupendously that I never bothered to look back or pine for her.
AurelianoTampa
19. Always Me
A lot of stuff just didn't add up, such as her always going to a "classmate-now-friend" house to "study" even though he has a dorm room on campus.
Then she said it was my fault the relationship ended because I didn't initiate enough for the relationship to keep going.
She also said that it was just the same thing every day for her, despite the fact that I was breaking my back in a warehouse job while trying to be her mental/emotional support while she was still in college.
My ex-fiancée basically said, "I didn't cheat on you," but she got a new boyfriend within the same week of the breakup, and when I asked her who it was, she said it was her "classmate-now-friend."
[deleted]
20. You Weren’t There For Me
This was in 2014. I went to my village for some festival (supposedly really important that males of the family attend) unfortunately there was a blackout right as I reached there, I kept in touch, told her about the issue, and I stayed in the car to recharge my phone for even a percentage more.
When the electricity finally came back on after a week, she asked me, “What would u do if someone else asked me out?” So the situation is that I had a gut feeling it must be my supposed bestie (which was the case).
I said I don't know what I'd do. Then she lashed out and said, "I knew it. You don't care about me if I stay or go." Like the b thought, I'm clueless.
Later on, she says, "You were away, and I was lonely. I talked with your friend, and we even cried together because u weren't there for me," as if I could teleport or leave to get away from her.
God, that was an awful time. Fellas, don't love a girl 100%. Love her 90% at max. Keep the 10% to yourself as a reserve for situations where she ain't all that after all. Glory and peace to Patrice O'Neal for that lesson. If anyone reads all that, thank you.
hanya9
21. Introvert Guy
The first serious girlfriend I had cheated on me because, and I quote, "I only cheated on you because you cheated on me." Wow, girl?
I did, in fact, not cheat on her, nor was I at a party with some girl. I was at home playing World of Warcraft and didn't go to parties. I was the loser who never socialized and just played video games at home.
But somehow, she believed I went to some party I was never aware of, hooked up with a girl I never knew existed, and then lied to her about it. Worst. Raid night. Ever
khrossjointz
22. The Scientist
So, I had a friend who got cheated on. Her boyfriend was a well-known liar, and not a lot of people believed him. Only his "gang" did.
The best part is that this dude cheated on her with a guy, and the explanation was that "I wanted to know what it feels like before I fully commit."
What he meant by "fully committed" was marriage. He wasn't even 18 at the time. They are still together, but the boyfriend still somehow manages to get away with it. He even tried to hook up with me. She lets him get away with it in the name of "experimenting."
yes_im_thicc
23. Dumb Reason
"We were on a break." Despite it burning me every time, my husband still thinks it's funny to say this. We broke up, and THAT NIGHT, he slept with someone else.
By the end of the week, he was back and even proposed. The witch he banged (a co-worker, no less) basically stalked him for a month.
She called him when we were in bed post-coital, so I took the phone from him and made it clear she needed to leave him alone.
(yes, I know it's not really cheating...but we were together for eight years, and it was hours after he broke up with me, so it feels like this)
NeverCallMeFifi
24. Totally Blinded
An ex-bestie of mine, pregnant with a known philander, had gone to his favorite bar since he hadn’t come home. She eyes his Jeep in the parking lot, then waddles her way into the bar to find him talking to the cashier from a mart in a booth.
He sees her, jumps up to intercept, and tells her, “Baby, you’re going to blow my cover!” At that time, he was vying for a detective and told her he needed to spend nights out late.
He was trying to bust a shoplifting ring and might be out with other girls. My ex-bestie, hell, bent on climbing that social ladder, processed the information and went from angry to supportive.
“Oh, I’m so sorry,” she pivots and waddles right out. Twenty-five years and two daughters later, I had to tell her he changed his Facebook status to “in a relationship” with some other woman.
M_Alch3m1st
25. Known Traitor
My ex came with a bunch of dumb explanations. One of my absolute favorites was when I wanted to shazaam a song on her phone while she was asleep (my phone was dead and in another room, and I didn't want to wake her).
I saw a bunch of online dating app messages pop up. I accidentally clicked on one and saw that she had like 400 matches and was writing with a lot of people.
I asked her the next day why she had the app, and she said, "Oh, I forgot to delete it, haha. Using it for friends". Note that we had been together for over a year then and that we both had deleted the app after getting together.
Another time, we were staying at a friend's house, and I felt sick and went to bed early, woke up by her sneaking into the bed at 9 in the morning. "We were, umm, taking a walk all night." I thought that it was bizarre and got even more suspicious when she started to hide messages between them.
My suspicions were right, though, as she got together with my so-called friend straight after breaking up with me. The worst was that he offered his support after the breakup and tried to hide their relationship.
cccantyousee
26. Marriage Reason
We were married, but I never proposed. We just planned on getting married and did. We had a kid together, and she was illegal, so it was all kind of necessary.
One of her MANY rationales was that because I didn't propose to her, she didn't think that I actually thought we were married and didn't want to seem too desperate for my affection.
I am still her husband. It turns out she didn't want to seem too desperate for her husband's affection. Gotta play it cool.
Savings_Inflation_77
27. The Red Guy
I was in the very beginning stages of dating this guy, and we got into a conversation about whether or not we had ever cheated and things of that nature.
He confessed to cheating on his ex-wife. "She had just had a baby and was spending all her time with the baby. She wasn't paying attention to me, and I got jealous." There was zero remorse. You could tell he felt like it was a valid reason.
He was sitting across from me at the restaurant, and it was like his whole body had turned into a huge red flag. I ended it shortly thereafter.
TwentyTwelve1
28. Made Up Excuse
Had a gf call me to tell me she made out with a girl at a bar. I wasn’t really sure what to think. As a guy, it seemed hot but wrong. So I decided we should break up.
Then she told me that she had made it up, which seemed plausible cause she didn’t go to bars often. The reason she made it up was that she wanted me to break up with her.
But now that I was trying to break up with her, she didn’t want to break up anymore. That seemed way worse cause she was playing games and trying to manipulate me.
So I broke up with her. She then complained that I did it over the phone. I told her she started all this by calling me. Also, she lived 2 hours away, and I didn’t want to make a 4-hour round trip.
Zebracorn42
29. The Seat
Dated this one girl for about five months in high school who had serious relationship issues. She would start fights with me out of nowhere, I’m assuming to go cheat.
One day, my ex-girlfriend picked me up from my house for a date (I was only 14-15 at the time), and her car’s passenger seat was leaning all the way back.
She said her dad had lowered it (I was about 5’11, her dad was 5’5), and I knew her dad would never lower a seat as I had ridden with him before in a car ride. We lasted another month before I found the strength to leave.
1l2ltfe
30. Best In Cheating
She kept cheating. Each time she’d say she didn’t deserve me, she thought I’d run away at any moment, even when I hadn’t known she cheated.
So I finally left. She begged me to talk to her again so she could explain herself again, which I finally did. She described her upbringing and closeness to her extended family, but they moved, so that connection died.
Somehow, she related that for a new reason. Sometime later, she’s with someone else and tells me how awful he is to her (the story she would say, at least). She tells me she won’t leave him because she knows he won’t leave her.
Hellohihello111
31. Fortune Teller
My buddy’s dad was diagnosed with Colon cancer. He starts going to chemo, and his wife starts going out with some other guy.
His sister found out his mom was cheating on his dad, so she told my buddy, and he sat his dad down and talked to him. Everything went emotional.
Dad confronts cheating mom, and she says (paraphrasing). “My fortune teller told me that the best way to get over your death would be to start something new with someone else.”
Now, mind you, his dad's not dead or really even close. The cancer is responding well to chemo, and he’s been slowly getting better.
She literally tried justifying cheating on him because he might die. She no longer lives in the house, and she, to my knowledge, has been excommunicated from the family.
bigdicken
32. Stress Reliever
My ex-wife’s. We’d been together since before university, been together through university (different uni’s, same city), then got engaged and married after uni. When I got my first big job after my graduation job a couple of years later, we had to move across the country.
She had been excited about the move, found a new job, and got really involved in choosing the apartment we’d rent while we got set up and planning kitchen items she’d buy with my extra pay... it all seemed good, and she genuinely seemed pretty excited for it.
About two weeks before the main move (I was already working there and commuting back and forth), I found out she’d cheated, and then that she’d cheated in the past, and then that she cheated a year or more ago.
Her excuse: stress. Worried about moving to a new city? Bang a guy. Worried about your new job? Bang a guy. Worried about exams? Bang a guy.
She genuinely tried to make me feel sorry for her that she got so stressed that she had no option but to go and sleep with other people.
I agreed with her that if that were true, she had real problems and needed help, but I disagreed that it was going to be my problem anymore.
It was a long time ago now, but it was a real eye-opener about other people, lol. Can’t be too angry, though, as we got married too young, and the years that followed my divorce were some of the best of my life.
Plus, if it weren’t for that, I wouldn’t have met my wife or had the family I have now, so all the best in the end. I just feel like I won.
Jjex22
33. Used Toothbrush
One morning, I went to brush my teeth, and my toothbrush was wet... I found that odd, so I asked my girlfriend if she used the blue toothbrush, and she said, “Yeah,” all casual.
I said that the pink toothbrush was hers, and she played it off like she didn’t know. I suddenly realized that we had been using the same toothbrush for a few weeks, and it kind of grossed me out.
That started a very small argument. I went to work, as did she, but she didn’t come home that night. The next morning, I called her out, and she admitted that she slept with another guy who didn’t think she was gross.
atlasbranded
34. No Money, No Girl
I was in Michigan putting my grandfather to rest while my fiance at the time was at home in NH setting up an apartment for college. On my way home (driving through Canada), I noticed my debit card was being declined. Thankfully, I had enough cash on hand to pay for gas.
I kept calling her to see if things were alright if she needed help moving stuff, and if she was still staying at her friend's house.
Nothing. Finally, I got to NH about 12 hours later and found that there was no trace of any money left in my account. 12k gone.
I called the bank, and they said it was withdrawn from an authorized member of the account. Call my fiance, and still nothing. Get a call about 3 days later with her crying, saying she cheated on me.
"You were gone, and he just reminded me of you so much." Well, I bet you're wondering what happened to the money. Well, she withdrew it to invest in her new BF's budding (pun intended) illegal business.
Boy, oh boy. Then she had the audacity to say this kid of hers was mine when I was in basic, and her mother was hoping and hollering at me, saying, "That's why you ran away to the military, to avoid being a father."
That freaking witch got knocked up and dropped like a rock, then has the guts to say the kid was mine. (It wasn't. We hadn't made out for a month or two prior, and unless the gestation period for redheaded whores is 11 months, there was no way.)
Decided to be the bigger man and not tell her mother about her transgressions but to help her do simple math. Suggests that maybe she should talk to her daughter.
That was almost nine years ago, and it still stings. I have a wife, two kids, a good job, and everything, but sometimes I wake up and think, "Man, what did I do wrong."
micahamey
35. No Dignity
After she cheated, she told me that it was my fault she slept with three different guys because I didn’t do enough for her.
Yeah, paying the rent, paying for her car, going out to dinner once a week (minimum), and spending what time I could with her weren’t enough, apparently.
Followed up by, “Well, I was going to end it anyway, so it’s not really cheating. I’d say we’re more like roommates, and I was gonna suggest we just keep living together even after this.”
Like, after six years, was I supposed to want to be roommates/friends with her? Just so I could pay for everything still?
zornyan
36. Wanting Fair Actions
“I did it because I thought you did.” I was hanging out with two of my friends once, Jacob & Sarah. We got some sweet frogs and went back to Jacobs to hang out, just like what we usually do.
My now ex-boyfriend and I were in a kinda new relationship, and boy, did he show his true colors. Suddenly, he showed up at Sweet Frog to see what I was doing because he didn’t believe the three of us were just hanging out.
But he also showed up at Jacobs's house later that night and showed up. I tried fighting him, made Sarah drive my car back to her house, and let me leave with him.
It was then revealed to me he cheated on me that same night while I was with my friends because he thought I was sleeping with Jacob.
_macncheese_
37. Meaningless Act
Mine wasn't super dramatic, but it made me mad. We were on a break, got back together, and eventually engaged. Wow, right?
I knew he'd been with someone over the break, but no big deal since it was a break. Found out, though, that they were still doing it, and his reaction was, "I'm sorry. It means nothing."
Then he leaned in to kiss me when I started crying, looked me in my face, and said, "You know this kiss means nothing, too, right?" Never have I felt such heartbreak and anger as I did at that moment. It left me pretty messed up for a while.
Time_Traveling_Panda
38. Excuse In The Public
Got invited to one of "the popular girl's" 18th birthday parties back in the day. This bloke, let's call him "Jeff," cheats on his girlfriends of 1 year with a girl at this party.
They did the deed in the girls' mother's room, which was next to the living room behind glass double doors. Everyone got an eyeful of this pair going at it.
The next morning, Jeff's girlfriend come to the house after hearing what happened. A load of us stayed the night, and we were woken up by the girlfriend shouting.
Jeff, who was still extremely drunk, tried to play it off by saying, "Baby, I was just doing my nightly AIDs check and slipped. I fell onto the girl." Somehow, they stayed together after that, and it was the second time he'd cheated on her.
kimantor1
39. Too Good To Be True
I once dated this guy, who I thought was a great catch. He had a funny, smart, handsome, amazing family, lived in a cute cottage by the sea, had a small boat he would take his big chocolate lab on, liked to garden on the weekend, and volunteered at a children’s hospital when he could.
Picture perfect guy. Even had an American flag in his front yard with a white picket fence. Small one so deer could easily come into the yard and eat the special plants he placed for them.
My heart was “thump thump,” but my brain was like, something isn’t right. This guy is a walking Jean Ad type man. Something is not right. My gut told me to be safe and not stupid.
Dated six months. Dates on the weekend are nothing serious; they are fun times. I couldn’t honestly say he was my “boyfriend”; he was just the guy I was seeing.
Then one night. He took me out to dinner. Super nice place. Very romantic, on the water, candle lights, the works. Told me he could see a future with me.
He had a small box in his hand, but he wanted to date other women a bit to make sure I was “the one. Just for a while. Just to make sure”. I’m assuming here I would get whatever was in the box if I said yes. I don’t know… just an assumption.
Brain went, “ TOLD YOU SOOO!” My heart went, “What a jerkward.” GUT SAID, “HAHAHAHAH! Let’s get the frick out of here”.
Broke up with him on the spot. I drove that Night, so he had to catch a cab home. I also left him with the bill. You bet! I’m that type of chick.
He spent the next six months sending flowers, candy, and other Jean Guy Ad things. Total tool. I sent everything back. I was done. Nope, I don’t take crap from stupid guys.
He finally did get married. He cheated on her right up until the wedding, then started back up after the honeymoon. Because “he wasn’t quite sure he made the right decision.” Total tool. The last I heard of them, the wife was trying to work things out, and his girlfriend was several months pregnant.
artinthegarage
40. Same Reasons
Both scenarios where I was cheated on were in my two longest-running relationships (5 years and six years, respectively). They both said some variation of "I have done nothing wrong. Get over it".
With the first one, we were high school sweethearts, had a kid together, and were engaged to be married. She cheated on me with a University classmate.
She did it by sometimes spending WEEKS on end staying in the City at a "friend's" house because it "wasn't safe for her to drive" the 30 minutes back to our home.
To her, it made perfect sense to leave me to do 100% of the parenting, housework, grocery shopping, etc., while also holding down the single income that supported all three of us.
With the second one, I was super open with her from the start, so she knew everything my ex had done to me, how she had treated me, etc.
Based on how vocally she would go on about honestly, I was under the impression that we were on the same page and that she was not the sort of person to cheat.
She started our relationship by cheating on her then-boyfriend with ME. He didn't find out until we'd been seeing each other for months.
I found all of this out after we'd separated due to her cheating on ME in a similar fashion. She said she'd done nothing wrong as she had simply decided to "move on" while continuing to tell me that she just needed more time away from me to "focus on herself."
Skjold_out_here
41. Unbelievable Usual Excuse
So, I had a friend at uni whose boyfriend was kissing another woman in the main university nightclub.
She found out (unsurprisingly, this was in the main university nightclub), and his excuse was, "I just got so drunk I forgot I had a girlfriend." She bought it at first. Then asked me if it sounded weird.
I told her that I had been blackout drunk, vomming in the street and forgetting huge chunks of time and space drunk. I never forgot I had a girlfriend. He's chatting bollocks.
Another friend chimed in, agreeing. "Oh well, maybe he did lie to me, but I've already forgiven him, so I can't go back on it."
AndyVale
42. Normalized Act
My friend's husband is in the military and was caught cheating, and he said, “It’s something that comes along with being a military wife,” like she should have expected it.
He said it’s on her that she was surprised and shocked because it’s just “something military men do.” What the heck this guy was thinking?
Also, just to add to this, the military priest or pastor called her after her husband went to them because she was saying she couldn’t be with a cheater.
The pastor tried to convince her to work it out( I think to try to keep the military divorce because of adultery statistics down). That was a weird time.
jessticles3
43. Worst Mother
She cheated and gave me the classic, “They listened to me and paid attention to me instead of focusing on our daughter like you.”
She is a shift worker, so I had to do most of the parenting because she was either sleeping, working, or “needing her own time to relax.”
We then went into couples therapy, where she cheated again while in therapy and told me, “He listened to me and gave me marriage advice our counselor didn’t think of.”
The papers have been signed for over two months, and I’ve been out of the house for 3, but she still tries to manipulate me into doing everything for her so she can be the fun parent. Narcissists are crappy humans.
birdizthawerd
44. Busted Cousin
"I didn't cheat, and screw you for saying I did." I only asked after her roommates met with me privately. Her roommates really looked concerned.
They told me prior to our breakup that my ex had been having her male cousin over in her bedroom, closing the door, and playing loud music.
We used to do that when we got busy at her place. I then came to find out from other people that she and her cousin were seen walking together and making out in a park right before she dropped me.
wolfmanpraxis
45. Worst Logic
“We were never dating in the first place, so it's not cheating.” We were dating and had been for months. He'd confirmed many times, but it wasn't Facebook official because I didn't have social media.
I was 16 at the time, so I didn't know what to do and just kinda went, okay? I started to believe maybe he was right. Looking back, I now know he was manipulative as hell and kinda dumb.
But boy, did he give me some good red flags to look for. Could've gone without the mind-boggling for three years, but it worked out because I was more aware and met the love of my life who is non-red flaggy.
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