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Thursday, September 8, 2011

Revenge That Backfires



The tremendous amount of pain and anger can easily cloud a cheated spouse's judgment. There is an almost automatic reaction to hurt the cheating spouse with the same intensity and gravity. During this time, the temptation to enter a revenge affair is at its greatest.

A revenge affair is an extramarital affair engaged into by cheated spouses to retaliate on their cheating spouses. It is not sought because of any romantic or sexual need but by a singular aim to inflict pain on a betrayer. What most hurting spouses often forget is that revenge usually hurts the person seeking it more than the person for which it was intended. It is no different with infidelity.

Cheated spouses would try to find the fun, the excitement, and the thrill that their cheating spouses had in pursuing extramarital affairs. Fun, excitement, and thrill will remain elusive since cheated spouses are too full of anger and pain for any other emotion to penetrate. Instead of deriving satisfaction from extramarital sexual relations, cheated spouses feel cheap and low because they know that what they are doing is wrong. It has often been said that another wrong doesn't make things right.

What is worse is that the guilt of cheating spouses is lessened because they feel that they have already been punished. With both spouses being on equal footing in terms of infidelity, the original cheating spouse may seek to justify what he/she started. For people who matter like children of the spouses, retaliation does not make cheating acceptable. What will stand out in the end is that both parents cheated and in effect violated the inherent trust in a family.

Unknowing partners in revenge affairs can also be unfairly used to achieve a personal aim of vendetta. Cheated spouses can easily end up hurting other people in the same manner that they have been hurt by their cheating spouses. Before they realize it, they manage to hurt themselves more than their cheating partners.



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