• atrielienz@lemmy.world
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      This is a great slogan but it’s not an absolute. It’s definitively based on an emotional response to a feeling of betrayal, and while I can agree that it’s likely in most scenarios, I really do wish people wouldn’t just spout it as if it is a defining characteristic of every cheating party in history.

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        eh, it is a sign of character, I think it’s safe to assume. it’s on them to prove otherwise to be honest.

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        Certainly not true 100% of the time, but absolutely worth keeping in mind, especially if one is naive or emotionally immature.

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          People who go to prison are more likely to re-offend by an exorbitant rate in America. This is because the system is set up to make them fail. Do you want to be the change in the world you want to see or do you want to set people up to fail by making the entire topic completely one-sided and vilifying everyone involved.

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          Do you want a solutions based conversation or an emotionally supportive one. Because my point isn’t about the recidivism rates of cheaters but about the fact that labels hurt any and all conversations involving them by smothering the flow of conversation. Meaning someone who is in a situation that might lead to cheating will not seek or is not likely to get advice that would mitigate such behavior.

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              At the risk of sounding like i must be a cheater myself, are you suggesting that once someone cheats they are no longer a human worthy of empathy and nuanced consideration of circumstances?

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        It’s pretty damn close to being an absolute. As someone who has never been involved in an adulterous relationship in any form, I would never get with someone who has cheated. They have shown they are absolutely willing to violate an intimate partners trust, lie about it, and leave them (likely with little to no guilt). If they can do it once, they can, and likely will, do it again.

        Passionate love and Companionate love are two different things. And passionate love never lasts forever. If you’re with someone who is willing to cheat to find that passionate love, then when it dies with you, they are likely to go on to the next short term passionate love.

        If you want to make the argument that someone cheated in a relationship with an abusive partner, there are still substantial red flags there. Without showing how they’ve made great strides to be a different person (therapy, self improvement, etc) I can’t see them being a trustworthy long term partner. And there is no way someone could have made those improvements if they went from one partner immediately to the next.

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    Besides the “meme” being cringe inducing garbage at a similar level to ‘live, laugh, love’. Just seems like copium or self aggrandising.

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      Most home wreckers are self aggrandizing hypocritical narcissists, so… yeah.

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        Your sister sounds immature. Might help if she did therapy or even a self help book.

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        Wow, I knew she wouldn’t be the brains of any operation but I didn’t think I’d be siding with the cheating douchefuck so completely. Like, she’s really got those premium blinders on to think all that, damn. Unless he had said he’d leave it all but at that point I don’t believe either of them enough to make any judgement or assumption.

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          I also didn’t think I would be on the cheating husband’s side but good for him standing up for his kids. I’ve seen far to many fathers drop their kids for their new girlfriend/wife.

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        Are people not allowed to have a huge fight until after 1 year in the relationship?

        Fights happen. A relationship that never fights is unrealistic and a problem. This insinuates to others that fighting in the first year is bad or wrong, and that’s just not necessarily true.

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          A relationship that never fights is unrealistic and a problem

          I’m not sure how you define “fight.” For me (and probably many others), it conjures an image of violence hostility.

          A lot of people in relationships resolve disagreements through discussion. If a partner were unable to discuss an issue without shouting (or worse), they wouldn’t remain my partner. Point is, being able to resolve issues in a mature way is a basic requirement for many relationships.

          I know that isn’t everyone’s experience though. I can only imagine how much crap you’ve been through for “relationship fights” to feel so normal. I’m sorry, that has to really suck. :(

          Edit: Changed some words. Also, I’m truly surprised that this many people seem to think that shouting at a partner is normal/healthy.

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            In a marriage/committed partnership, I think most people would consider a fight to be an argument with raised voices and some ill feeling. I really don’t think most people consider shouting to be violent. Upsetting, maybe, but violent?

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              Fair enough. But do most people really think it’s healthy to shout at their partners when they disagree over something? I’m kind of shocked at how many people are voting as if that’s a normal expectation in a relationship.

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          I think what OP was pointing out was the severity of the fight, and the way that it has illustrated fundamentally different expectations of this new relationship so soon – not just that there has been a fight within the first year because you’re right, disagreements are normal and usually healthy.

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    “It’s funny she called ME a thief, but now SHE doesn’t have a car and I do. Maybe I should have been called the ‘owner’ all along.”

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    Wow, your sister is a real homewrecking piece of shit. She also doesn’t understand that if he’ll cheat on his ex with you, he’ll cheat on you with someone new.

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    Ugh, this entire concept makes me want to wash my eyeballs, both the cheating, the homewrecking, the justifying it after the fact, and the gloating too.

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      It’s generally regarded as a shitty thing when someone has an affair with a married person. For said person to then go on and make a meme boasting about it is even more shitty.

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    Is everyone too distracted by the cringe to be infuriated at the punctuation? Wtf is happening with those quotation marks?

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        I read it 3 times trying to figure out where the quote was supposed to be before I gave up and came to the comments.

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      Welcome to the 1950s. They used quotes to make it clear it was the pictured character saying that. They also standardized using quotes to identify the motto on businesses and trucks. The SomeECards meme format is a caricature of that.

      Bill’s Burgers “We serve pleasure”

      Jack’s towing “Reliable hookers”

      Manny’s Milk “We’ll deliver that white cream that puts a smile on your wife’s face”

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        The use of a pretend quote is one thing, but what is the middle quotation mark doing?

        Manny’s Milk “We’ll deliver that white cream” that puts a smile on your wife’s face"