Seeing my father cheat on my mother has led me to be afraid of relationships...
Like eventhough I have a partner and I love him to pieces, there is always this fear that it will end badly. 😬My parents are still married but I took the brunt by providing emotional support to my mother when my father cheated. I was the one that listened to her and held her when she cried, my father did nothing. I take full credit for this and eventhough they have moved past this you can see it's left deep scars on my mother.
Cheating is whatever is not agreed upon in the relationship, the boundary you put in place. When you violate these is when it becomes cheating. So maybe flirting, teasing, etc... might not seem like cheating to YOU. It all depends on what each partner signed up for in a relationship.
Yet now there is this fear that it's inevitable in any and all relationships...eventhough I've never had to deal with those issues even in past relationships. Part of a lot of my work to heal myself has been through therapy, but I think this is also something I should bring up because I feel like it has definately affected my views of relationships and what to expect of my own partners.
Cheating is whatever is not agreed upon in the relationship, the boundary you put in place. When you violate these is when it becomes cheating. So maybe flirting, teasing, etc... might not seem like cheating to YOU. It all depends on what each partner signed up for in a relationship.
Yet now there is this fear that it's inevitable in any and all relationships...eventhough I've never had to deal with those issues even in past relationships. Part of a lot of my work to heal myself has been through therapy, but I think this is also something I should bring up because I feel like it has definately affected my views of relationships and what to expect of my own partners.
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