Category: Guides for the future

  • Rebuilding Trust

    Rebuilding Trust

    Trust, once broken, feels almost impossible to glue back together. If you’re reading this, you’re probably carrying a heavy heart. Maybe, despite the hurt, you realise you still love the cheater, and reconciliation is on your mind. I’m usually quick to encourage people to dump cheaters, but I know not everyone can immediately accept this…

  • Friend cheated on their significant other

    Friend cheated on their significant other

    When your friend cheats, staying neutral might feel like the easiest option. It avoids confrontation, preserves the status quo, and spares you the discomfort of getting involved. But ethical responsibility demands more than passive silence. But what feels like the middle ground often isn’t as neutral as we’d like to believe. Sometimes, the ethical choice…

  • Regretting the Sunk Cost

    Regretting the Sunk Cost

    Six years. A shared future. A life built together. And then I found out about the cheating. When I told a friend I’d walked away from it all, including losing the home we had secured together, she was taken aback momentarily. “But given the sunk cost, couldn’t you have tried to find a way to…

  • How I used Stoicism to survive being cheated on

    How I used Stoicism to survive being cheated on

    It’s difficult to understand the sheer trauma of being cheated on until you personally experience it. If you’ve faced it, be kind to yourself. Know that it’s okay to scream, and to cry. You’ve been betrayed and it probably feels like the sky has collapsed. But after the storm passes, when the dust settles, you are…

  • Cheating is the most scarlet of all flags

    Cheating is the most scarlet of all flags

    Dating a cheater, whether they cheated on you or someone else, is fundamentally about risk management. Whilst people certainly can change, the evidence and logic suggest that reconciling with a cheater deserves far more caution than many offer. It’s a bit like buying a used car that’s already broken down once. Sure, it might run…