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Cheating

  • 26-03-2022 10:17am
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,860 ✭✭✭


    Evidence suggests that over 50% of us cheat or have been cheated on, I'm just curious what people's honest views are on this subject.

    As far as I know, one boyfriend (at the time) cheated on me (most likely a few times) and I drunkenly cheated on him once. I hate cheating and even more so hate the fact people lie about cheating.

    What are other peoples thoughts.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 455 ✭✭KieferFan69


    Depend is it just a kiss or a feel up, both of which are grand if it happens naturally (if events dictate) I think touch can even be okay, but never remove all your clothes or bounce it because the feeling of loss is too much to bare if the real one finds out, otherwise you just say we were both drunk and ‘had a thing’ as long as no pen you’re good

    have I done it, yes, we all have, will I do it again, probably, doesn’t mean I dont love her

    also depends what age you are



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,549 ✭✭✭facehugger99


    Did you put the word 'drunkenly' in front of 'cheated' to mitigate what you did?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 455 ✭✭KieferFan69


    If you have cheated you will know that booze often plays a role



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,340 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    I cheated on 1 girl in NY years ago. Only time. Been cheated on by a spouse. And I know who. Not a one off but for years. I see posts on Facebook about how him and his now wife are SO in love. Mutual friends) and how he's such a devoted husband to her and their 2 ,maybe 3 children.

    Little does she know the for their whole courtship he was cheating with their mutual great friends cousin.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 455 ✭✭KieferFan69


    Did you enjoy that or did you regret it? Even when we regret these things we still relive them in our minds over and over , so it’s not clear whether we really regret them, or simple we fear disapproval



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,340 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    She wasn't a steady gf ,in my mind anyway. A weekend hookup , or so I thought. Yes I regret it. Looking back on my regrets, they always happened because I couldn't grow up a be a man, rather than a boy around town.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,412 ✭✭✭Jequ0n


    I’ve always cheated and will continue to do so. Humans aren’t meant to live monogamously.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 665 ✭✭✭goldenmick


    @Jequ0n - I’ve always cheated and will continue to do so. Humans aren’t I'm not meant to live monogamously.


    Fixed that for ye.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,860 ✭✭✭Pissy Missy


    "both are grand if they happen naturally" - does your partner (presuming you have one) also agree with this? What do you mean by "no pen"? So what if you're 50 years of age?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,860 ✭✭✭Pissy Missy


    I don't remember kissing another guy I was that drunk, it was only that my friend told me the next day, it doesn't excuse my behaviour, there is no excuse for cheating, but I like to think, despite **** up, I did the right thing by being honest with him and telling him what happened, there's no way I could lie to someone about something like that. Looking back there were problems in the relationship and alcohol brought my subconscious to the surface, in hingsight it prob was the best thing that could have happened coz otherwise I prob would have stayed in an unhappy relationship, though obviously would have preferred to end things respectfully and maturely but sometimes **** happens.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,860 ✭✭✭Pissy Missy


    For some people it definitely does, drugs can be so lethal



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,860 ✭✭✭Pissy Missy


    Did you tell the girl at the time about NY? How did you find out about your ex spouse?

    Yeah i dont really envy relationships because you just never know what's going on, spoze all you can do is hope for the best



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,860 ✭✭✭Pissy Missy


    So im assuming the partners at the time aren't told about this



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,412 ✭✭✭Jequ0n




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 271 ✭✭bejeezus


    would have to get one first but the less hassle the better . 😂

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 984 ✭✭✭Still stihl waters 3


    I'd a lady used follow me back to my digs to give me a blow job years ago while I was working away from home for a few months, we used go for a few pints after work some nights and she was working behind the bar, she never let me ride her for some reason so I never understood what she got out of it, but who was I to turn down blow jobs, I'd have been letting down the entire male race to knock that on the head, I was going with a girl at home but blow jobs are incredibly hard to turn down



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,555 ✭✭✭✭AckwelFoley


    I'm married 11 years with 4 children. I've often wondered how married people find the time to cheat. ****, it's hard enough to get time to have a shyte in peace.

    I haven't even come close to been tempted to ever cheat on my wife. I've too much respect for her.

    I have cheated on a girlfriend I had in the past. But frankly when I think about it, that's all it was ..a girlfriend for 8 years.. we weren't going anywhere and not even at the living together stage. I do feel a little bad for the dishonesty but in fairness I had a great time which outweighed being a prick.

    I've pitched my tent at this stage, I'm fortunate I've met someone I can trust. Definitely has its challenges, anyone that says they're in a blissful relationship of happiness are lying, either to themselves or others



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,420 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    Would you not be worried about the fact that there was no ride, that "she" might have been a "he"and be packing a piece.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,860 ✭✭✭Pissy Missy




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,145 ✭✭✭Katgurl


    Yeah I've been cheated on, and cheated when I was younger. Both painful, I was filled with regret afterwards. Now I think feck it, I was young. I definitely would not stray now, no way.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,145 ✭✭✭Katgurl





  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 515 ✭✭✭TheTruth89


    What I can't understand is why do these people get into relationships I mean surely they know the sort they are why not just do everyone a favor and stay single if your going to be the town bike or vice versa. No one will have a problem then.


    I've never cheated in a relationship, I just leave the relationship if that's the case don't need to be cowardly and all cloak and dagger I'll tell the person outright.


    I do look down on people that cheat and In general have less respect for them I think it represents a serious character flaw and they aren't to be trusted in any regard.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 95 ✭✭Ham Grenade


    Sure who doesn’t love a bit o’ fresh ?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,726 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    A kiss and a feel up are absolutely not grand. Don't be fooling yourself.

    If I heard my wife did that on me, I wouldn't feel any worse if she had effed the guy.

    That said, I did cheat before we were married and I wouldn't rule out doing it again if the circumstances fell that way. But I wouldn't be bullshyting myself about degrees of infringement, its all feckin cheating lads. I'd be going into whatever it was with my eyes open.

    Kissing is cheating

    Oral is cheating

    Any sort of intimacy, even if there is never sex, is cheating.

    Sexting is cheating.

    Having a long term confidante online that might or might not involve sexual talk, but your partner not knowing about it, is cheating.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 984 ✭✭✭Still stihl waters 3


    Well if it was a "he" he had a fine pair of tìts, but no, definitely female or else just a really REALLY feminine man



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,860 ✭✭✭Pissy Missy


    So if you found out she cheated, that's okay cause you cheated?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,860 ✭✭✭Pissy Missy




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,860 ✭✭✭Pissy Missy


    So you don't feel any regret for doing it now? Nice though that you've learnt from it



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,503 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    never given the chance up to now



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭Amprodude


    I think cheating is such a dishonest thing to do. I don't approve of it and I would never do it to my wife. Its such a horrible act to do. If you stray from your partner just do the right thing and tell him or her you don't want to be with him or her anymore and just end it.


    I had a married woman trying to come onto me one night on a work event. I work with her, she is a very attractive woman and she had a few drinks taken, I was heading out to the toilet and she followed me out and called me back. She started talking to me and said she wanted to kiss me. I froze I actually didn't know what to think or do. She put her hands around me and tried to kiss me but I pushed her off me and told her no. It was awkward for both of us at work after all of this but I was delighted I didn't allow her to try her stuff on me. Yes she was a really attractive woman but she was married and I had a partner at the time who I was very loyal to.


    I'm probably about 1 in every 10 man that wouldn't do such a thing but I know plenty of other men who wouldn't miss the opportunity especially when the woman on show was quite hot.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,726 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    Of course not.

    If I found out she cheating, that'd be the end of it. If she found out I was cheating, I'm sure that'd be the end of it too.

    But if I don't catch her, what I don't know won't hurt me.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,831 ✭✭✭Eoinbmw


    Its only cheating if your caught!

    But being serious I think its the most natural thing in the world to "cheat"

    We are as a species just like any other on the planet here to survive !

    I honestly feel like its really a primeval instinct in all of us that allows us to behave that way!

    Of course alcohol and other substances help to dull our inhibition's so most of this stuff happens under these conditions!

    Someone mentioned about being tied down with kids and family life and not having the time! I feel that but being honest with myself Im capable of cheating if all the stars aligned rightly or wrongly!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,639 ✭✭✭andekwarhola


    It doesn't seem right if you don't say cheatin' like in a plangent country and western song.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,860 ✭✭✭Pissy Missy


    Based on this thread responses, I'd say more like 1 in a million



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,860 ✭✭✭Pissy Missy


    I've heard ppl say this too, "I'm happy to stay in a relationship like where everything seems fine, if they were cheating I wouldn't want to know about it". Personally I can't comprehend what's nice about living a lie and being treated like a piece of ****, but each to their own.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,860 ✭✭✭Pissy Missy


    We are also evolved to think meta cognitively

    Anyway, once a person is upfront that they don't believe in monogamy with a love interest then I don't see the harm, sadly though that usually doesn't happen, people just love to have their cake and eat it. Usually though, the cheating signs are there, just up to the partner to choose to read (or believe) them or not



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 515 ✭✭✭TheTruth89


    Nonsense, people that think like that are deluding themselves cheating is cheating don't cod yourself otherwise.

    But if you genuinely hold those beliefs why do you bother with a relationship then? Would you say that to your missus? I doubt it and for obvious reasons why.

    The thing is as much as you think your getting away with it your not really your only damning any relationship that you get into where you will really want it to work because you LL never be able to trust anyone.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,726 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    Nope, just 50%, you said it yourself to open the discussion.

    And I'm not one bit surprised. I really don't know about the liklihood of women cheating on men, but I'd be completely accepting of a stat which said 1 in 2 of Men would cheat. Its absolutely believable.

    I say 'would' and not 'have' , because the reality of it is too stressy for some people and as others have said, some simply don't have the time.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,145 ✭✭✭Katgurl


    No, what's the point in carrying around regret for years and years? It happened along with a million other things.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,597 ✭✭✭Ginger83


    I don't get what was in it for her? Was she an older woman or just did it when drunk? Did she stay the night or go home?

    An ex of mine got in touch when her marriage had problems but I stayed well away. Last I heard they were still together and had another kid. She could suck for Ireland but no way was I opening that can of worms.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,340 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    Forgot to mention it was in Dundalk , he had a Galway name. And Galway heritage. And I Ceen him he Ran like hell. 🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 984 ✭✭✭Still stihl waters 3


    No about my own age and she was working most of the nights behind the bar but she used to have a few beers if she was off, she used stay until the morning and go home then, she only lived a few doors down from where we were staying, she was ideal in fairness to her



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,330 ✭✭✭✭Loafing Oaf


    I find the term really grating, sounds to me like a word someone in Home and Away would use. Is there no more grown-up term we could use? 'Having an affair' is all I can think of, and that's a bit cumbersome...



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,412 ✭✭✭Jequ0n


    There are many reasons why people decide to stay in a relationship and cheat instead of “just” breaking up. If it was so simple more people would go down the breakup route.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,412 ✭✭✭Jequ0n




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,726 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    She spills the beans and the wife initiates a divorce and he's forced to leave the house and has to live happily ever after in a self-directed life of peace and serenity.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,412 ✭✭✭Jequ0n


    Aww it’s time for the fairy tales now. So the thread took a nice turn after all.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 271 ✭✭bejeezus


    Just curious, but where do you all pick up these people ?? Lol. Writing as a singleton btw



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,860 ✭✭✭Pissy Missy


    I think Ashley Madison is a place where people go to have affairs or just simple online dating, ppl care less if they get caught or find it a great place for an easy lay



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,726 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    People to have an affair with? Usually work.

    All the Guards are effing each other. I'm not even exaggerating.



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