Latest Quotes

“I cheated on my girlfriend because I could. I never had a lot of sexual options through high school and college, but after school, I really hit my stride. For the first time, women were hitting on me, and I was drunk on the feeling.”

— D.H, Why Do People Cheat? We Got 11 Cheaters to Confess

“Testing React components seems simple at first. Then you need to test something that isn't a pure interaction and things seem to break down.”

— Josh Dover, Idiomatic React Testing Patterns

“She knew, even though she was too young to know the reason, that indiscriminate desire and unselective indulgence were possible only to those who regarded sex and themselves as evil.”

— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“When a man cheats, it is said it is because he is a dog. When a woman cheats, it is said it is because her man is a dog.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana, Divided and Conquered: An Analysis of Man-made Weapons of Mass Separation

“Would I cheat to save my soul? No. But to save my G.P.A.? Yes.”

— Julie Anne Peters, Luna

“I tried to tell myself I was hurting Bennett, hurting myself, making a spectacle of myself. I was. But nothing helped. I was possessed. The minute he walked into a room and smiled at me, I was a goner.”

— Erica Jong, Fear of Flying

“Delusion detests focus and romance provides the veil.”

— Suzanne Finnamore, Split: A Memoir of Divorce

“So when a secret affair is revealed, it’s devastating, destructive, and something we all would like to avoid -- but it’s also a moment that can make us finally, fully honest about what’s been missing, and what’s worth saving.”

— Anna Sale, Cheating Happens.

“My husband and I had been together for so long and I came to realize that he in a lot of ways had stopped paying attention. I think to a certain extent we were both sort of invisible to each other.”

— Sheri, Cheating Happens.

“It became more painful to not do it and to just test the waters and say, maybe this is the only guy that I’ll ever be in love with and for me to deny myself that -- that would be terrible.”

— Ali, Cheating Happens.

“Having an affair seems like such a big decision. Of course, it’s really a series of small choices.”

— Anna Sale, Cheating Happens.

“People who have affairs just want to find some real happiness and love in their lives.”

— Mira Kirshenbaum, When Good People Have Affairs

“Choosing between two people is for many of us much more a matter of choosing between two selves: the two different selves you are with these two different people.”

— Mira Kirshenbaum, When Good People Have Affairs: Inside the Hearts & Minds of People in Two Relationships

“Do you have a very special and compelling reason for thinking that two years after you married your lover your lifestyle together would be dramatically better than your lifestyle with your current spouse?”

— Mira Kirshenbaum, When Good People Have Affairs: Inside the Hearts & Minds of People in Two Relationships

“Fun is the glue of intimacy. I know: Sex is important. Confiding deep secrets is important. But being able to have fun together gives relationships the equivalent of whatever that stuff is that holds atoms together and prevents them from flying apart.”

— Mira Kirshenbaum, When Good People Have Affairs: Inside the Hearts & Minds of People in Two Relationships

“But you can only give so much of yourself away before you lose yourself.”

— Mira Kirshenbaum, Everything Happens for a Reason: Finding the True Meaning of the Events in Our Lives

“Thousands of years ago, man spread his seed freely, without the spectre of ‘cheating’ hovering over him. Its what nature intended.”

— Chris Haven, 6 Reasons To Cheat On Your Girlfriend

“Having an affair only results when one or both partners don’t realize that the intense ‘butterflies in your stomach’ feeling that they feel initially won’t last forever.”

— John Alex Clark, The Truth Behind What Makes Someone Cheat

“After telling my husband I was lonely and unhappy for years, he continued to travel for months at a time until I finally found someone else. Having that fling forced me to admit I wanted a divorce and to tell him in no uncertain terms that I was done.”

— Andrea H., Women Reveal What Drove Them To Cheat On Their Husbands

“I’m waiting to find another girl to form a relationship with before I dump her, so that I can make the process of dumping her less painful for myself.”

— Zitandspit99, 22 Cheaters Explain “What Drove Me To Cheat”