No matter how terribly painful being cheated on feels like, never forget that you’re not alone. Many other people have experienced what you are currently going through. Some of these people have found remarkably empowering ways to deal with the situation. The following cheating quotes are packed with uplifting thoughts and encouraging strategies. These are the birds of encouragement that lift you up and help you to move on with your life.
1. “Those who cheat on their partners who are loyal to them; don’t deserve them. It is a trashy attitude to disrespect a person who is loyal in a relationship, by cheating on him or her.”
2. “The shattering of a heart when being broken is the loudest quiet ever.”
Carroll Bryant
3. “Virtually all women will always carry the scars and a deep sense of loss and grief from the betrayal. Time is the salve on this journey towards forgiveness and healing because it is also a process of grieving.”
Meryn G. Callander
4. “So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.”
E.A. Bucchianeri
5. “‘It was a mistake,’ you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.”
David Levithan
6. “Laine promised herself that, as soon as, she could, she would rid herself of this house, this bed, her clothes, her jewelry – everything but the flesh she lived in. She would scrub herself clean and flee to start a new life whose first and only commandment would be: Never let thyself be lied to again.”
7. “It is better to lock up your heart with a merciless padlock than to fall in love with someone who doesn’t know what they mean to you.”
Michael Bassey Johnson
8. “A confident and spiritual woman knows that “moving on” doesn’t mean you never loved someone. She realizes that letting go is what God needs her to do because both your happiness and hers requires taking different journeys for spiritual growth.”
Shannon L. Alder
9. “What do you do when the one person you want comfort from the most is the one who caused your pain? How can I want so desperately for him to wrap me up in his arms but also want so much for him to leave me alone.”
Amanda Grace
10. “Disappointments in love, even betrayals, and losses, serve the soul at the very moment they seem in life to be tragedies. The soul is partly in time and partly in eternity. We might remember the part that resides in eternity when we feel despair over the part that is in life.”
Thomas Moore
11. “I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
12. “Most women will do almost anything to avoid having to face these truths. Even if we yell and scream at him when we discover that he’s lied to us, once the dust settles, most of us will opt for the comforting territory of rationalization. In fact, many of us are willing to rewire our senses, short-circuit our instincts and intelligence, and accept the seductive comfort of self-delusion.”
Susan Forward
13. “Infidelity is mentally, emotionally, and physically painful to the betrayed spouse. Be gentle with yourself as you heal.”
Dr. Karen Finn
14. “I didn’t understand why he sabotaged our future at the time – cheating on me, again, as we were making final plans to move in together. By the time he came over to smooth talk his way out of it, I was done. No more crying. Even my tears had given up on him. I’d already moved on, his cheating was simply the key left in the mailbox.”
Rachel Thompson
15. “If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.”
Shannon L. Alder
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