Your Cheating Heart: Part One

The third post in RELATIONSHIP WEEK focuses on cheating and infidelity. This topic is definitely one that required a little bit of time and forethought. Besides, I wasn’t prepared for the avalanche of emotions that occurred when I started this entry.

I’ve had experience with this on both ends and in a particular instance, at the same time. Sometimes I’ve been the last to know, but it never hurts any less, no matter the duration.

The only thing that I can say with certainty is that most of my relationships have been very complicated. To clarify, not in that “it’s complicated bordering on I’m 99% single” way that the Facebook status offering seems to suggest.

From Psychology Today:

Adultery: Is It Ever Justified?

You’ve got to read that article if nothing else, to find out what deontology means. Fascinating.

I’ve read and reread this article from CNN that was posted a couple of days ago:

‘Sugarbabe’ favors negotiated infidelity

I personally think that she’s a bit full of herself and is sexist, amongst other things, but hey, to each his own.

From The Independent UK: Revealed: The Birds Who Play Away From Home

From The Mayo Clinic: Mending your Marriage after an Affair

“How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.” – Oscar Wilde

Ever since I found this pic on a tumblr site, oh boy. I just sent it to a friend in need, along with some words of encouragement.

I can’t believe that I didn’t see this link before: Karl Lagerfeld for VICE Magazine

He has some interesting commentary, especially about “high-class escorts”. Thank you, Unkle Karl.

The world would be a better place if everyone read this quote:

“When we’re incomplete, we’re always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we’re still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising.

This can go on and on–series polygamy–until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.” – Tom Robbins

I’ve really got a lot more to say about this entire topic and there will be a Part Two. However, the oogy feeling that I have in my solar plexus right now immediately demands for some comic relief.

Ok, I hate to have to do this to you, lovely readers, but here goes: