Struggling with understanding relationships, infidelity, advice needed for [26M]

"First and foremost: you are letting two women represent half of the human race. You were in two relationships that you ended because you thought she was cheating (you must have been pretty sure of yourself to break up with your 4-year girlfriend without having concrete proof...). But there are woman out there that won't cheat on you. Bad luck? Maybe, but eventually you'll find a girl who won't cheat on you if you keep looking."

Not necessarily. I should have been more clear. The two relationships I speak of were "serious". I have dated around quite a bit that didn't even get to "official" status, largely because I would find out that they weren't being truthful towards me or they'd be playing the field behind my back. The way I look at it is if you can't be truthful to me now, how can you be on a serious issue when you're in a LTR with me. It doesn't jive.

"You were in two relationships that you ended because you thought she was cheating (you must have been pretty sure of yourself to break up with your 4-year girlfriend without having concrete proof..."

As I said earlier. It really hurt me having to break up with her without concrete proof...at the time. To make a long story short, she was texting a guy that she said they were "just friends" and I "needed to trust her". Problem was, she wasn't being accountable, her reasons were bullshit and I broke up with her. Every day I questioned whether or not I did the right thing -- until her cousin called me up and needed to talk to me about something a month later. Sure enough, he told me that she went home and hooked up with that guy she was talking to. Pretty sad when quite a bit of her family knew what was up and he told me because "Even though she's family, you're a man, you treated her like gold and you don't deserve to get hurt."

It really stung, but it gave me closure and allowed me to move on because I knew I did the right thing.

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