When someone that you love has an affair, it changes everything. If you are the person that gets cheated on by your spouse, it will cause you to feel many emotions. It will hurt you because being betrayed is something that is never easy. Then, the one that cheated will feel guilty, hopefully, and no matter what happened, there are still people that will forgive this. Here are some reasons people forgive.
Giving Another Chance
Some partners believe that they should give their spouse a second chance even in cheating. They don’t want to end the relationship without giving that person a chance to fix things. They sometimes believe that if a person gets a second chance, then they will treat them better than they did the first time.
Family Ties
Forgiving their partner for cheating sometimes happens because of the family ties. When someone has children, having a relationship end can be heartbreaking for everyone in the family. Even if a partner cheats, the two can decide to keep the relationship together so that the children don’t have to go through a painful divorce.
Getting Therapy
Some people want to forgive their partners, but their heart doesn’t let them do that. But they can go to a counselor that can help them to work through these things and feelings so that they can move forward with forgiveness.
Getting Revenge
There are some people that will want to get back at their partner for cheating on them and this is sometimes the reason that they give their partner another chance. This way they can cheat this time and show them how it feels.
Getting revenge ends up hurting everyone that is involved, and it can cause a lot more pain than there already was.
Sometimes Forgiveness Isn’t an Option
There are many people, more than half that have been cheated on, that choose to never forgive their partner for cheating on them. They choose that being in the relationship isn’t worth it and they decide that the relationship was just a mistake.
The affair causes the person that was cheated on to never have trust for that person and when there is no trust, divorce is the best option.