Russell ProcopioEnglish 104. 72/20/01The damages of cheating Essay There are many meanings of the word cheat the meaning that sticks out the most to me is, to be unfaithful to somebody, to have a sexual relationship with somebody other than a spouse or regular sexual partner says MS Encarta. Relationships end everyday due to cheating and the emotional scares of cheating or being cheated on can stay with a person forever.
Not only does cheating effect the person that has been cheated on, but it also affects the cheater, friends, and family members as well. I personally learned about cheating at a very young age when my parents got divorced. Being only four years old when my parents first split up it was hard for me to understand why my father was not around anymore, but going to see him every other weekend at a new house with a new woman, I quickly learned. As I got older I gained even more of an understanding about what cheating really meant. By my father sleeping with another women he had betrayed a sacred trust between my mothers and he, setting a great example for me to fully understand about cheating. When you cheat on another person not only do you disrespect them, you also disrespect yourself by throwing your word, credibility, and ability to be trusted right out the window.
To some people cheating is a way of life and by mentally diluting them self they feel it is ok, and that it is no big deal. The problem with being unfaithful is that even though you are deceiving someone else, the person you are deceiving the most is yourself. If you consistently lie about your feelings, you start to believe your lies, causing you not to know what your true feelings. When a person lies to himself or herself it makes it easier for them to lie to others and by lying to other makes them more worthless then the ashes from a cigarette. When you are a person that is cheated on, it is by far one of the worst experiences that a person can go through. First you have more anger then you know what to do with, all you want to do is go crazy.
Anger quickly turns into depression; your mind starts to think of everything and anything. The past, future, present, your mind feels like its speeding in your car at a thousand mile an hour. Your ability to trust is shattered, you feel that you have been used and that you will never trust again. You wish that there were something you could do to change the past. You may blame yourself and think that, only if I had not said this, or did I not show I cared enough. You start to ask why, why this, why that, why.
These are just a few of the emotional battles that a person will go through, and only with time will these battle wounds heal but the scares remain forever. When a relationship comes to a crashing end due to cheating not only does it affect the ex-couple but it also affects family and friends as well. Being a listener and a giver of advice are usually the key roles friends and families quickly learn how to play. Playing these roles are not easy and unfortunately with no choice by them, they have now been dragged into unwanted drama.
Friends are lost, enemies are gained, becoming the middleman is a typical roll, and life can drastically change. When I was cheated on by my ex-girlfriend, my friends were forced to be in the middle. I would always make my friends find out information for me. I wanted to know anything I could about who, why, when, and how many times my ex cheated on me. Now as I write this paper I realize what an unfair positions I was putting my friends in.
Cheating can cause so many problems, life turns into a soap opera its like each day there is a new drama to deal with, it feel like the continuation daily pain will never end. Cheaters hopefully learn from their mistakes and gain the self-control .
