“My inner fuckboy took a one-way trip to another universe exactly 123 days ago, when I decided to stop being a dick because I met a girl who deserves the best. She's the love of my life, and I plan on giving her my personal best for the long haul.”— Anonymous Guy, thoughtcatalog.com
“One day a few months back my little sister came home from school balling. I asked her what was up and she said this guy she’d been crushing on who’d been flirting with her non-stop suddenly stopped Snapping her back and refused to acknowledge her in the hallway—like it was nbd. I wanted to kill the…”— Anonymous Guy, thoughtcatalog.com
“A few years ago I was dating lots of women simultaneously, ditching anyone who demanded ‘girlfriend status’ and literally picking their replacement on Tinder the next day. I actually logged girls into my phone with notes about what they looked like because it got too hard to remember who was who. On…”— Anonymous Guy, thoughtcatalog.com
“Thinking back on the way I treated women as a young adult, I can’t believe I ever got laid. But I did. A lot. Then at 28, I got laid off from my job as an advertising exec. Walking home midday, in the depressingly empty streets, I realized that I had nothing. Sure, I had a few thousand dollars saved…”— Anonymous Guy, thoughtcatalog.com
“People are as varied in libido as they are in shape, size, and color. Some are legitimately addicted to sex while others identify as asexual and the rest fall somewhere in between. I’m guessing you wouldn’t recommend that a sex addict search for love in a nunnery, so why settle down with someone mil…”— Mélanie Berliet, thoughtcatalog.com
“Time to to apply my personal methodology for dealing with a less serious, but still huge (to me) temptation: shopping. Because I'm somewhat addicted to buying new clothes whether or not my budget permits it, I've come up with a personal rule to prevent really poor decisions. When faced with a purcha…”— Gena Kaufman, glamour.com
“It's crucial to figure out why you cheated in the first place in order to prevent it from happening again. For example, after a few weeks of therapy post ex-breakup, it became clear to me that one of my biggest emotional triggers is when someone cancels plans on me at the last minute. So, in my curr…”— Rebecca Santiago, bustle.com
“I want to change. I’m totally in love with her and I want to marry her and I want her to be the mother of my children and I want to be the man that I always wanted to be. I never imagined myself cheating on my wife, and I don’t plan on doing that. And I haven’t cheated on her since we’ve gotten enga…”— Anonymous Guy, nymag.com
“The favorite instrument of communication for the Player is the text message. It’s a great way for him to charm many women at the same time while relaxing on the couch while another woman is cooking him dinner.”— Derek Wellington, amazon.com
“You say that the past is the past, you need one chance It was a moment of weakness and you said, "Yes.”— Taylor Swift, amazon.com
“I missed all the things loneliness taught me: eyes that follow you crossing a room, hands that find their home on you. To be noticed, even. In my defense, his hands. In my defense, his arms. In my defense, how when we just sat listening to each other breathe, he said 'This is enough.'”— Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, amazon.com
“Changing underwear. You notice your mate has been wearing new and sexier under garments.”— Neil Morton, huffingtonpost.ca
“Upon returning home, your mate immediately runs to the shower before greeting you in an effort to wash away any evidence.”— Neil Morton, huffingtonpost.ca
“Being emotionally withdrawn. It’s never a good sign when it takes effort to make even basic conversation with your mate, and also when your partner no longer asks for more in-depth details about things going on in your life.”— Neil Morton, huffingtonpost.ca
“He's become the worst person ever at texting you back, but when you're together, you see him texting as much as a bored tween on a Sunday.”— Lane Moore, cosmopolitan.com
“He always seems to be making friends with new women whose names you only hear him mention occasionally and know nothing about. Apparently, there's a Kate in the mix now and last week it was a Hilary? Seriously how is he meeting all these female-named humans and why?”— Lane Moore, cosmopolitan.com
“Part of an emotional affair is talking about everything to the point of over-sharing. You know, the way couples do. So it could be a bad sign if your partner is suddenly extremely aware of more personal details about another person, especially if it's to an unreasonable level.”— Carolyn Steber, bustle.com
“If your partner is suddenly all about social media — especially if they've never previously shown an interest — it could be they've found a way to chat without being too obvious. That's because these digital platforms make the relationship easier to hide.”— Carolyn Steber, bustle.com
“Are you suddenly finding it hard to get in touch with your significant other? Is his mobile phone turned off during times you normally can reach him, or does he claim not to have had any cell service for hours at a time? Or maybe he says he has business meetings all night or a work conference all we…”— Kristin Koch, womansday.com
“Many men who have affairs have ‘jump phones’ or ‘burner phones’ that they use exclusively for their cheating behavior. These phones are often prepaid phones that resemble the old school flip phone Nokias of a decade before. If you see him pull one out, it could be a burn phone, and it could be a sig…”— Ossiana Tepfenhart, thebolde.com