WarriorsGirl -> RE: It's Eating Away At Me (6/18/2008 10:12:02 PM)
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Well, this will be unpopular, I'm sure, but...most people seem to be very down on someone being so willing to lie. The thing is, I find it difficult to pass judgment, even in support of another, without knowing why it happened. Sure, it could be a lie. Yes, he could be cheating. But most people, I would think, enter a marriage with every full intent of being faithful forever, and that includes the many men and women who wind up lying and cheating to cover up something they just don't know how to deal with. Someone who cheats is not necessarily a coward or a bad person, but could easily be someone who is facing something he/she has not faced before and just doesn't know yet how to handle it or hasn't screwed up the courage yet to take the responsibility to handle their unhappiness properly. Possibly someone has some real identity issues or is trying to resolve an inner conflict that has nothing to do with having an affair and everything to do with how they wound up in place in which they would consider having an affair in the first place. (And no, I've never had an extramarital affair, in case it appears that my opinions are from personal experience.) This is not to discount the OP's feelings. Just because her partner may not know how to handle himself doesn't mean that she has the same problem. But I cannot believe that a good marriage is subject to dissolution and I cannot believe that all people who have affairs are disrespectful and cowardly, despite appearances. I feel there is always something more and at the very least, if this is an actual affair and if she did wind up ending the marriage, possibly understanding exactly why it happened will help in the healing process afterwards. Note I didn't say take blame for what happened, but just understand what happened. Yes, I'm sure that cowardly, lying, men (and women) are out there and that some of our lives have been affected by such, but I just can't be so quick to judge a person based on so little knowledge of the situation.
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