What are some legitimate reasons to stay with a partner that cheated on you (once or multiple times)?

Apart from people who are being manipulated and think they can change the other, or sacrifice their lives and mental health to make the other stay, there is choice. And it depends on the way you picture « cheating ». To me, it’s « going for something you can have right away with your partner ». If you can’t have happy sex, for example, no problem, you can go and look for it. As you said, people will most likely come back to their rightful place, because they built something there. And building is more important to me than « enjoying ». I think duty, love and passion are three very different things, and I couldn’t care less if my husband (representing « duty », since we would form a family) went looking for some passion here and there. Romantic love (the same that’s in the movies) fades, and passion explodes, so I wouldn’t want my relationship with my husband messing with my family, which sacred to me, for such stupid things, that even look like high school drama in most of the cases.

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