Love, Relationships and Cheating: Deadbeat

Deadbeat

By Ryley Jenna - 23/06/2021 11:01

Today, I found out that my boyfriend cheated on me for a year. He doesn't see how texting and sexting counts as cheating. While I cleaned, cooked, payed all our bills and went to school, he didn't work. FML

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You deserved it 270

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By Anonymous - 03/11/2023 08:00

Today, I found out my boyfriend is cheating on me. His excuse was that I never had time for his needs anymore. He’s unemployed but I guess me working and studying to get my degree so we could move out of his parents’ house was too much. Now I have no place to go. FML

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You deserved it 104

It's all in the past

By Anonymous - 14/05/2022 05:00 - United Kingdom - Oxford

Today, I found out my boyfriend cheated on me, years after it happened. I live with him and have been paying his rent, and have been completely oblivious of the fact all this time. Of course, it was also with the girl he told me not to worry about. FML

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You deserved it 175

Piss poor excuse, dude

By Anonymous - 27/12/2023 15:00 - United States

Today, I found out my boyfriend of 8 years is still cheating on me with the girl that he was caught sexting on my birthday back in July. His response was that if I didn't hang out with my friends on the weekends, he wouldn't have to find someone to entertain him all week. We live together. FML

I agree, your life sucks 426

You deserved it 230

Thrill seeker

By Anonymous - 15/11/2022 00:00

Today, I found out that my boyfriend of almost two years has been cheating on me with his ex. They had a horrible, abusive relationship and she even stabbed him at one point. I got him out of that situation and almost went broke doing that. FML

I agree, your life sucks 1 352

You deserved it 265

By Anonymous - 23/10/2013 07:40 - United States

Today, I found out through one of my friends that my boyfriend cheated on me. He says it doesn't count as cheating because he couldn't get it up. FML

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You deserved it 4 676

Reverse Uno

By Anonymous - 15/12/2020 20:01

Today, while trying to be sexy for my fiancé by going to change his background photo to a naughty pic of myself, I found out he's been actively cheating on me. For almost a year, with multiple women. When confronted, he tried telling how hard me finding out was for HIM. FML

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You deserved it 153

By heartbroken - 10/07/2013 19:08 - Australia

Today, I found out that my boyfriend of over a year has been cheating on me the whole time, but that "it's just physical". However, he doesn't want to do anything "physical" with me, except cuddle when we're together. FML

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You deserved it 4 723

Double standards

By Anonymous - 15/10/2024 15:00 - United States - San Diego

Today, I found out my boyfriend of two years cheated on me. His reason? "You were flirting with me for a whole year before us when you had a whole boyfriend at the time. How do I know you aren't a cheater?" His further reasoning was that at least if I cheated on him, he'd have a reason to stay with me. FML

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You deserved it 402

The Phoebe Technique

By Anonymous - 28/02/2021 02:01

Today, I found out that my boyfriend of five years has been cheating on me with other women from all the hickeys and scratch marks he has. But to top it off, he's slowly been moving out for months. FML

I agree, your life sucks 1 213

You deserved it 247

By xxruby - 24/02/2015 21:07 - United States - Katy

Today, I worked my boyfriend's shift so he could stay home. I even brought him the free meal I got for helping out. Turns out he wanted to stay home so badly to cheat on me. FML

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You deserved it 3 561

Becky Samuel 6

Wednesday 23 June 2021 11:49

Sounds like you need to grow a pair and stop catering to a man-child.

hope jm 5

Wednesday 23 June 2021 15:05

kick him out, then he cad text and sext all he wants. he has no respect for you.

Comments

Becky Samuel 6

Wednesday 23 June 2021 11:49

Sounds like you need to grow a pair and stop catering to a man-child.

hope jm 5

Wednesday 23 June 2021 15:05

kick him out, then he cad text and sext all he wants. he has no respect for you.

motoikkyu 13

Wednesday 23 June 2021 17:04

Disrespect is unacceptable, no matter the circumstance, and it is clear you are not being respected. I am not down with that. Having said that, be aware that guys have skewed ideas of what constitutes cheating. To a guy, anything short of physical contact is NOT cheating, it's merely flirting. Social science (psych and sociology) have proven that the MOST flirtatious guys are OFTEN the most loyal and LEAST LIKELY to cheat. Seems counter-intuitive, but the data is good! Confident partners don't care if their man flirts, they know it won't go any further, ever. Take an extra step and see if this was just flirting, in your guy's mind, and if he was just getting stimulated and then bringing that sexual energy home to you, his primary (and hopefully exclusive) relationship. You might be surprised!

core01 30

Thursday 24 June 2021 5:08

Guys always think when THEY do it then it's NBD. But when tables are turned it's suddenly cheating again. You know damn well if she sexted men he'd call it cheating

Pycnogonida 16

Saturday 3 July 2021 2:10

Lol. That's bullshit, and you know it. Unless they'd already agreed that sexting other people was ok, which clearly they hadn't, it's cheating. Full stop. "Confident partners don't care if their man flirts"? You can say you're not down with disrespect all you like, but that shows your real stance, imo. Respectful partners don't interact in a sexual way with other people outside of the relationship without asking or caring how their partner feels about it. No amount of mental gymnastics will make cheating like that into "flirting", and your uncited claims don't change that one bit.

haylstorm187 13

Friday 25 June 2021 0:24

had that happen. it was someone he met in a game, talked for about 6 months before i found out... at least yours had a different ending, hopefully... a few days later i found out i was pregnant..🤦‍♀️