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My sister wants to stay with her boyfriend

My sisters partner cheated on her for 6 months. While she was pregnant of their first baby. For her, for him, for their surrounding a very sad and angry and difficult time.

It strikes me how hard people judge when it is about cheating. Everybody has an opinion about it.

Sometimes I don't even dare to express that I am actually not that mad, but that I hope that they come out stronger. Nobody seems to share that opinion. It's unpopular.

Still my sister seems to want to stay with her partner. It hurts me to see that she hardly gets any support from her friends. They think she's crazy. I also understand that. I also do not agree on cheating, but... well, it's complex.

Happy that I can share about this anonymously. Gives some space already!


Anonymous
> 2 years ago
last response: 10-11-2022

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Wow, I think it's beautiful how you deal with this. You are definitely a big support for your sister. And yes, the judgments of the surroundings. Happened to me too. I don't talk about it with anybody. Because of the judgments and the bad painful jokes. It hurts so much when this happens to you. Wish her good luck from me.


Anonymous 04
> 2 years ago
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Hello Anonymous 04
Thank you for your sweet words. This is a big support for me.


Anonymous
> 2 years ago
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I have been through something very similar partner has an affair while I was pregnant with our second baby, I found out the first night home from hospital. It’s not an easy path to try and work it out as we are doing but it’s worth a shot to see if we can have a better relationship and if nothing else it means that we can co parent much better. It turns your whole world upside down and now is the time that she needs you to support her in what ever her descion is. You sound like a great brother

Emma
> 2 years ago
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I am 21 years old. I cheated on my boyfriend of 3.5 years. He is also 21. At the time, I didn't know that he loved me romantically, because I was always the one wanting to spend time with him, the one taking initiative. And I was always insecure, even though I was happy with him. Then another friend of mine came, I had known him for 3 years as well, and I somehow fell into a relationship with him at the same time. I felt sad for disrespecting my boyfriend, and I only understood the pain I had caused after we had broken up. I told him I had been unfaithful and told him that I didn't know what was going on with me. I reached out to him because deep down I didn't want to let him down, I wanted to stay with him to make amends and to make him happy. I enjoyed our friendship very much and I felt happy and at peace when I was with him, even though I didn't feel that kind of romantic love anymore. I felt like I loved him unconditionally, yet I managed to be unfaithful. He didn't want to part ways. He wanted to be my boyfriend still, and didn't want our love to end. It seemed like he really loved me and I was the one who didn't understand that. He said he couldn't be my friend anymore. Will he ever recover from this? Will he ever think relationships will be like that all the time? We got on very well with each other, even though we didn't spend much time together, even though we had different personalities and different interests. He was a friend to me and I was loved, but I couldn't really stop cheating, I couldn't stop myself from falling in love with my friend. I wanted to be friends with him one day. I wanted to heal his broken heart and fix my mess. Right now I am hurting terribly, I hurted mutual friends as well with this, and now I am sad to the point of having a weird pain in my chest that never goes away when I am alone. I also am very sad for this, I feel like sleeping all the time. I always felt unloved by my boyfriend, but now I know he loved me dearly and would never seek love from another woman, like I did to him with another man. Will he ever forgive me? I only say this because I felt more like we were friends and because I kept feeling attracted to people who spent more time with me and who clicked with me and my interests. Still, it was no reason to do this to my boyfriend. And I love him still, I love his beautiful spirit and soul, and I wish there was something I could do to help him out. For so much time I made a lot of effort to be with him and do things with him, and yet I self-sabotaged. How can I help him be happy again? I loved him unconditionally and I love him still, I love him like a friend, and I feel very warm feelings of care for him, it's just that it wasn't the love I was looking for. I'm so sorry for being like this, will he ever find happiness again? Will he ever speak to me again?

Margot
> 2 years ago
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Hey... I feel we all have the right to love whoever we feel comfortable sharing ourselves with. However, one thing you can do to help your sister is to help her discover if her partner truly has good intentions for her. You can contact recoveryship.com on their website, they helped me discover my cheating ex. Life can be complicated!

Anthony
10-11-2022

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