Make Cheating Wrong Again!

Welcome to the millennial world, where relationships have been reduced to a status symbol and cheating seems to be the new high that people are getting. Cheating in a relationship has become so frequent and normal in today's world, it feels as though we have grown to become desensitized from our emotions. Songs, movies and social media have helped to distort our idea of relationships and how they should work. They help to build the idea that cheating is simply funny and harmless. What people need to recognize, or perhaps remember, is that cheating is an emotionally damaging act.

For a person who's been cheated on, trust is a difficult topic. It often becomes extremely challenging to put faith in another person, even if that person truly does have your best interest at heart. Cheating on someone potentially damages any relationships they could have in the future. In the news this week, a rumor spread that Khloe Kardashian is pregnant with Tristan Thompson's baby. Allegedly. Twitter ate that news up, and some were even saying that she ruined her sister's relationship with her best friend to go back to a guy who cheated on her. Even though the rumor is false, some good points were made. Khloe did ruin a friendship JUST to go back with Tristan at one point in time. Like what was the point???

Now, I know judging from the outside in on others' relationships is hard. And truly none of our business. However, there are some situations when you might choose to give your partner a second chance. Every person’s situation is different (that's another thing we will talk about another day) . If one can forgive a person, it shows compassion. And the decision is only of the person who is hurt. Whether you let one person demean your awesome self or do you walk with a person who is penitent for the mistake they have committed, is a choice that only the person who has been cheated on can make. Overall, what we need to do is stop normalizing cheating. And make loyalty the best choice again!

We need to go back to the time when we thought cheating was serious and wrong. We need to turn being unfaithful back into the negative thing it once was all while learning to respect our own, and other peoples’, relationships. We need to stop praising loyalty so much and maybe cheating wouldn't be so normalized as it is.