Cheating, for men is just part of their nature. Over time women have learned to accept it more and more. But it hurts just the same when we find out their doing it. If we decide to forgive them and take them back they never hear the end of it. It will be years before they even regain an ounce of our trust. Every woman knows that cheating is just unacceptable and damn near unforgivable (excluding the cultures that allow polygamy). What about when women cheat, are we hypocrites when it comes to us committing this action? Do we feel that it should be easier to forgive a woman compared to forgiving a man? I would say that it is not the women who are the hypocrites in this situation but rather the men.
When men cheat, they supposedly cheat for sport, because they’re bored, or because they want to experience something new. As for women, they cheat because their man isn’t emotionally feeding them or giving them attention. So they go to the next best candidate, the man who is giving them attention and satisfying their needs even without the physicality of it. Women become attracted to that and end up cheating on their boyfriends/husbands. The hypocrisy comes in when the discussion of forgiveness and acceptance. The question whether to end or continue the relationship comes up.
Men cheat and expect to come home and sleep with their girlfriends after a night of cheating. And when they’re caught women are supposed to believe the crocodile tears, forgive them and all is well. On the other hand when women cheat, men are distraught. They don’t know if they can find it in their heart to forgive us and can’t possibly understand why his girlfriend did what she did. Of course he wouldn’t see that it might just be his fault she stepped out on him.
What makes cheating unforgivable when women do it, compared to when men do it? I believe women forgive their man because they are willing to go through the stress to workout the relationship. We have invested so much time with him that we just can’t let go. Yes, it is a major setback but we have so much hope that it can still work out. Hope ends up killing most of us. Men know we cheat because there is a lack of something in the relationship. So they give us a hard time when accepting us back into their arms. Men indulge in the hypocrisy more than women, when it comes to cheating.
