stella41b
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Joined: 10/16/2007 From: SW London (UK) Status: offline
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Coming back to the thread on a slightly more serious note, I have been cheated on but have never cheated. I have been tempted a few times but have never given in to that temptation. I live my life to a strict moral code based on Buddhism and have done so ever since I was 17. I pray and meditate on a daily basis and will do until I die. Does this make me any more good and worthy than the next person? No it doesn't. You see, I may not have cheated on anyone, but I have hurt people, I have lied and deceived others and have lied and deceived myself on numerous occasions, I have been weak, I have made mistakes, I've done a lot of things which I shouldn't have done. I'm human, I'm fallible, and I'm just as much subject to the forces of good and evil as anyone else. Yes good and evil. Both exist in this world and both IMHO opinion exist side by side. nd you know, life is never really that straightforward or simple as to be able to make judgments on other people based on one particular event in their lives or even a few. Evil committed with the purpose of achieving good in my book is justified, just as doing good which has the effect of becoming evil isn't. This is my morality and hierarchy of values, it is individual, to me, and I refuse to apply it with regard to someone else. Relationships are all about choices, decisions and responsibilities - both individual and joint. I was married in 1996, had a beautiful wife, who knew from the start about my gender issues and was supportive of me when I later found out the truth and decided to start my transition and journey to become who I really was in my entirety. From that moment on she cheated on me. But what was she expected to do? Say "That's okay hun, I guess a wife is as good as a husband." Her affairs hurt, but not because she was cheating on me. The pain came from me knowing that I had got married to her and she was forced to go elsewhere for what she needed. This is what hurt, me treating the marriage like a risk and putting her in the situation she was in, in letting her down, misleading her. There's mitigating and aggravating factors on both sides, but I would never condemn her for cheating on me, simply because it wasn't cheating at all, she was moving on. We never had kids. But then again we never really had sex. s it happened we had a beautiful divorce, no faults, far better than the wedding in fact. Three months later her lover married her and she has two wonderful kids. Each and every one of us treads our own individual path through life. We make our mistakes, we accept the consequences or live with them. I'm not here to judge. I'm here simply to observe, share, learn and try to understand. When I can't understand I merely accept.
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