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Originally posted by rufeelinme
You say for a person to leave his wife or significant other if they were prone to cheat.
Well, I wouldn’t recommend someone to leave their SO just because he or she is prone to cheating. I think that there are several issues relevant to what causes a person to cheat: genes, psychological stability, sense of fulfillment in the current relationship, etc. I do recommend that anyone who is going to cheat to leave their SO, however. Being prone to do something and doing something are two different things. I’m prone to react violently (as indicated by the post you are responding to) but in the past several years, I have stopped nearly 100% of all acts of extreme aggression that I found myself about to make. It took a lot of hard work and reshaping how I vent my anger. For example, rather than starting to hammer away at some guy’s face for doing something I don’t like (it has to be something pretty serious, nothing stupid), I’ll talk shit and scare the hell out of him and then I cool down. Once I cool off and have vented the anger, I can return to the more rational and collected self and I apologize to the guy and I try will try to settle the issue in an adult manner—or I’ll leave the situation. Of course, I look like one of those idiots who is full of hot air and talks the talk but doesn’t walk the walk, but it’s better than getting myself into a fight. I learned quickly that I can’t judge who will win a fight between myself and another person by comparing the way we look. I’ve beaten the hell out of huge men that I was certain would rip me a new rear-end and I’ve had the crap beaten out of me by a little skinny guy that looked like he couldn’t pick up a concrete block. I soon realized that I was either going to get myself killed or hurt someone else. Once I got my then girlfriend pregnant, I decided it was time to start caring if I ended up in jail and the like.
It’s difficult to explain my former outlook on life. I’ve always been nice and I’ve always been quick to sling a fist. The two seem to conflict with one another, but it was perfectly rational in the type of life I grew up in—where guns where we dodged bullets on Friday and slung knuckles on Saturday and went to church on Sunday. The world I grew up in is totally different than the world I’m living in now, and the two often clash. (I’m hoping this tangent will somehow lead me into the next phase of my response.)
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But then you turn around and say you would kill someone if they cheated with your wife / S/O. Isnt that a contradiction of sorts? If you feel that way - why dont you leave them now. Unles you understand the concept of Forgiveness - you have not done so or you would not harbor those psychotic tendancies.
Yes, it’s a contradiction (I guess someone could argue that it is not a contradiction, but I agree with you so it won’t be me). However, rationality fails where emotion rules. When I first read average’s post, I became emotional over what I was reading and found myself becoming angry. I couldn’t believe that I was reading someone casually talk about how he “usually” doesn’t cheat but won’t turn down a hot chick. Opinions vary, but to me this is puke. That’s not to say average is puke. I recognize that different people view sex differently. I also realize that average may not see anything at all wrong with having sex with someone when it is nothing more than feeding the animal and no emotional attachment is involved with the other person. I don’t see anything at all wrong with this kind of behavior if the SO is aware of what is going on and approves. If you have to sneak and hide, then something is wrong.
I can say with full honesty that I have no problem with the idea of murdering anyone who bangs my wife—but I’m saying that with full confidence that it will never happen again. When I was in high school, a girlfriend got drunk at a party and screwed some guy. I told her I’d kill the next guy that had sex with any woman that I was with in the future—it happened again many years later and I didn’t kill anyone, even though I felt that I was saying it with just as much truth then as I did when I wrote the post to which you responded. Also, when it happened years later (it was a different girl, by the way) I had several chances that I could have attacked the guy or done anything I wanted to him. Instead, I left the area and cursed him under my breath and fantasized about beating the hell out of him. If I came home tomorrow and found someone in my bed having sex with my wife, I would want to kill him. I think there’s a very good chance I’d attack him—but I don’t think I’d actually kill him. He would be someone’s son, possibly a brother or a father—a husband. Those who would be hurt by the death of this hypothetical man aside, he would still be a living person with dreams for the future and a desire to live. I can talk about killing him until I turn blue in the face, but if the moment ever came I know wouldn’t do it. But … I’ll probably claim to be the killer of any future man who bangs any woman I’m with at least once every two or three years for at least the next ten years. I get caught up in myself sometimes and blow more hot-air than was originally intended.
So, what’s the deal with my post? Mmm.. I think it was emotionally charged hot-air. The only time I say that I’d kill someone with whom my SO cheated is when I’m pissed about cheating—a rare thing.
Before I move on to another thought, I’d also like to point out that I think my post had less to do with lack of forgiveness and more to do with insecurity. I’m not sure if that makes sense and I’m not sure how I could articulate it in a way that makes my feelings on this issue clear.
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I dont write to you to insult you , but rather to tell you to understand that life is all about forgiveness and what it is never about is revenge.
You said nothing at all that was in the least insulting. ;) You were simply presenting the voice of reason in a place where it had obviously been silenced.
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for every piece of crap who cheats on their trusting spouce - there are ten loyal and trustworth women who would love you like no other. And you’ll never meet them with that course of action.
I’d also like to think that for every ten pieces of crap who cheat, one of them learns a lesson and uses it to grow and avoid similar bad decisions in the future.
I had to leave after making my post, so I didn’t have time to go back and delete it all the crazy crap once I’d gotten over my angry outburst. But it turned out OK because it gave you an opportunity to respond to what I normally would have deleted and rewritten, which prompted me to explore why I wrote it.