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How to Know if Someone is Cheating on You?
It’s never easy to accept the fact that someone could be cheating on you, but it’s always better to know as a matter of fact than be in doubt. I don’t feel like people talk about cheating enough nowadays. Maybe it’s not happening as much as it used to? Maybe in 2021, there are no more reasons to cheat? You can have an open relationship with people from the same or other sex or even have multiple partners at the same time.
There is no more just what once was “considerate normal”, man and woman getting married and a man cheating on a woman, or in some cases, a woman cheating on a man. The world is finally showing its face: plural narratives.
In a world, so open-minded, is there space for cheating? I guess there is because some people have progressed and others haven’t. Today, we can be honest with ourselves and the world. If you don’t need to follow the pattern, you can create your pattern. You don’t need to have only one partner if you want to have five. You have enough freedom to do that, but why do people still cheat?
I don’t have the correct answer for that, but I will try. I think people cheat because they are looking for attention. And to be looking for attention just means that you are outsourcing validation. Somehow, you need other people to fulfil something, you aren’t giving yourself. And this can be plural. So…
