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		<title>Comment on Here’s How to Stop Your Husband from Cheating by Zondile</title>
		<link>http://advice.eharmony.com/blog/2011/06/24/here%e2%80%99s-how-to-stop-your-husband-from-cheating/comment-page-2/#comment-7551</link>
		<dc:creator>Zondile</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 15:46:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I have been married for 17yrs and am taking good care of my husband but he has started cheating I cant take it anymore at home he gets everythng he wants</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have been married for 17yrs and am taking good care of my husband but he has started cheating I cant take it anymore at home he gets everythng he wants</p>
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		<title>Comment on How I Would Prevent a Guy From Cheating&#8230; by Sadie</title>
		<link>http://advice.eharmony.com/blog/2012/05/03/how-i-would-prevent-a-guy-from-cheating/comment-page-1/#comment-7540</link>
		<dc:creator>Sadie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 05:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This all rings true and yes, I am a survivor of a cheater.  He&#039;s still in denial about the whole thing?!  I did the whole fight, took him to a marriage retreat once I discovered the &quot;friendship&quot;.  We did marriage counseling weekly for over three months, individual counseling too. He never emotionally showed up for our marriage sessions, though.  Eventually our marriage counselor, after 3+ long months, stated we should stop wasting her time, our time, and our money until we were both ready to put both feet in.  He refused from day one to give up his friendship as he didn&#039;t see why he should have too, it was emotional infidelity if not more, which I&#039;ll never really know the truth.  It destroyed a 17 year relationship.  We have 3 boys and I hate to think what it&#039;s done to them long term.  I was the one who finally broke down and filed for divorce.  I did all the paperwork myself as he was dragging this on and on, I walked away devastated! It was bad enough that he has yet to take responsibility but then to say he wasn&#039;t to this point yet only poured salt into an already painful wound.  Telling me he wasn&#039;t sure that he loved me, the other woman in his words, &quot;is smart and pretty and our age.&quot;  BTW she is 10 years younger!!  The amazing power of the Internet!  Yes cheaters hurt so many people, kids, extended family, friends, neighbors etc.  It&#039;s a mess and it hurts but I am learning that the most important thing to remember is that this is an end to one chapter in our books of life and the next chapter will be so much better.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This all rings true and yes, I am a survivor of a cheater.  He&#8217;s still in denial about the whole thing?!  I did the whole fight, took him to a marriage retreat once I discovered the &#8220;friendship&#8221;.  We did marriage counseling weekly for over three months, individual counseling too. He never emotionally showed up for our marriage sessions, though.  Eventually our marriage counselor, after 3+ long months, stated we should stop wasting her time, our time, and our money until we were both ready to put both feet in.  He refused from day one to give up his friendship as he didn&#8217;t see why he should have too, it was emotional infidelity if not more, which I&#8217;ll never really know the truth.  It destroyed a 17 year relationship.  We have 3 boys and I hate to think what it&#8217;s done to them long term.  I was the one who finally broke down and filed for divorce.  I did all the paperwork myself as he was dragging this on and on, I walked away devastated! It was bad enough that he has yet to take responsibility but then to say he wasn&#8217;t to this point yet only poured salt into an already painful wound.  Telling me he wasn&#8217;t sure that he loved me, the other woman in his words, &#8220;is smart and pretty and our age.&#8221;  BTW she is 10 years younger!!  The amazing power of the Internet!  Yes cheaters hurt so many people, kids, extended family, friends, neighbors etc.  It&#8217;s a mess and it hurts but I am learning that the most important thing to remember is that this is an end to one chapter in our books of life and the next chapter will be so much better.</p>
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		<title>Comment on How I Would Prevent a Guy From Cheating&#8230; by Steve</title>
		<link>http://advice.eharmony.com/blog/2012/05/03/how-i-would-prevent-a-guy-from-cheating/comment-page-1/#comment-7537</link>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 02:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I totally agree with and can personally relate to #6.  I cheated only one time on my now-ex wife and although she didn&#039;t find out (or at least I think she didn&#039;t), the cancer was in me.  I consciously (and subconsciously) lost respect for myself and over time it eroded and destroyed my marriage.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I totally agree with and can personally relate to #6.  I cheated only one time on my now-ex wife and although she didn&#8217;t find out (or at least I think she didn&#8217;t), the cancer was in me.  I consciously (and subconsciously) lost respect for myself and over time it eroded and destroyed my marriage.</p>
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		<title>Comment on How I Would Prevent a Guy From Cheating&#8230; by Kristi</title>
		<link>http://advice.eharmony.com/blog/2012/05/03/how-i-would-prevent-a-guy-from-cheating/comment-page-1/#comment-7536</link>
		<dc:creator>Kristi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 02:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Diana I love what you said about cherishing your family every day if you are lucky enough to have a family and someone you love to share it with.  I was the woman that was cheated on and it hurts more than anything in this world. Even though I am now a single mom I am happier knowing that I no longer have to live with someone that did respect me enough to be faithful to me and the vows we made to each other.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Diana I love what you said about cherishing your family every day if you are lucky enough to have a family and someone you love to share it with.  I was the woman that was cheated on and it hurts more than anything in this world. Even though I am now a single mom I am happier knowing that I no longer have to live with someone that did respect me enough to be faithful to me and the vows we made to each other.</p>
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		<title>Comment on How I Would Prevent a Guy From Cheating&#8230; by Steve</title>
		<link>http://advice.eharmony.com/blog/2012/05/03/how-i-would-prevent-a-guy-from-cheating/comment-page-1/#comment-7533</link>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 00:09:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>ASG:  Sorry about your loss.  Please do see the Steve comment below:

Perhaps a renegotiation of the relationship is in order.  There is a good book &quot;the dawn of sex&quot; that theorizes and presents evidence that our ancestors were not monogamous.  Monogamy appears to be a religious mandate that almost all cultures have adopted and perhaps it warrants revisiting....and what is jealousy anyway?  and honest look will uncover it is just fear turned outward.  Why would you not want your spouse to have sex with someone else?  Down deep it is probably because of your own insecurities and you don&#039;t want them leaving you or someone else.  Really look.  We don&#039;t do this with any other activity.  Tennis for example.  It is probably ok for your spouse to play tennis with anyone.  What if you ignored the concept of fear and were whole and complete yourself?  Then would it matter if your spouse had sex with someone else?  of course not.  Safety concerns aside (and appropriate measures can be made there).

ASG&#039;s comment above is a perfect example of how we let religious dogma and or cultural BS run our lives.  Some are so committed to dogma that they will shot themselves in the head (or how ever he did it).  What if they could have gotten the fear/jealously concept I discussed above.  They both could have been happy (maybe even stayed married...if everyone could have dealt with their own shit ... instead of making the other wrong).  This is basic basic personal development concepts.  

LET GO of your conditioning.  You don&#039;t have to be a slave to it anymore.  Your attachment to it is LEARNED and you have been BRAINWASHED.  Simple logic and deduction will show you that!

ASG:  I am sorry about your loss.  I would not blame this on his actions.  I would advise you to look at your own issues as in the end that&#039;s all there is.  Forgiveness is a wonderful tool....so is not taking anything personally.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>ASG:  Sorry about your loss.  Please do see the Steve comment below:</p>
<p>Perhaps a renegotiation of the relationship is in order.  There is a good book &#8220;the dawn of sex&#8221; that theorizes and presents evidence that our ancestors were not monogamous.  Monogamy appears to be a religious mandate that almost all cultures have adopted and perhaps it warrants revisiting&#8230;.and what is jealousy anyway?  and honest look will uncover it is just fear turned outward.  Why would you not want your spouse to have sex with someone else?  Down deep it is probably because of your own insecurities and you don&#8217;t want them leaving you or someone else.  Really look.  We don&#8217;t do this with any other activity.  Tennis for example.  It is probably ok for your spouse to play tennis with anyone.  What if you ignored the concept of fear and were whole and complete yourself?  Then would it matter if your spouse had sex with someone else?  of course not.  Safety concerns aside (and appropriate measures can be made there).</p>
<p>ASG&#8217;s comment above is a perfect example of how we let religious dogma and or cultural BS run our lives.  Some are so committed to dogma that they will shot themselves in the head (or how ever he did it).  What if they could have gotten the fear/jealously concept I discussed above.  They both could have been happy (maybe even stayed married&#8230;if everyone could have dealt with their own shit &#8230; instead of making the other wrong).  This is basic basic personal development concepts.  </p>
<p>LET GO of your conditioning.  You don&#8217;t have to be a slave to it anymore.  Your attachment to it is LEARNED and you have been BRAINWASHED.  Simple logic and deduction will show you that!</p>
<p>ASG:  I am sorry about your loss.  I would not blame this on his actions.  I would advise you to look at your own issues as in the end that&#8217;s all there is.  Forgiveness is a wonderful tool&#8230;.so is not taking anything personally.</p>
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		<title>Comment on How I Would Prevent a Guy From Cheating&#8230; by karen</title>
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		<dc:creator>karen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 22:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I have been the ‘cheated on wife’ by a man who still doesn’t think he did anything wrong. He tried to rationalize it by saying ‘seducing married men is a sport to some women’ and ‘as long as it happened away from our hometown and if no one, (including me)found out, he wasn’t hurting anyone’. I wish he would just own up to it and apologize. The kids don’t need to know all the details but to act like ‘mom blew the whole thing out of proportion’ makes him look ridiculous. Believe me, plenty of people got hurt and it devastated our finances too. And he says I should have stayed with him because there are a lot of marriages worse than ours. Hello? great logic. No thanks.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have been the ‘cheated on wife’ by a man who still doesn’t think he did anything wrong. He tried to rationalize it by saying ‘seducing married men is a sport to some women’ and ‘as long as it happened away from our hometown and if no one, (including me)found out, he wasn’t hurting anyone’. I wish he would just own up to it and apologize. The kids don’t need to know all the details but to act like ‘mom blew the whole thing out of proportion’ makes him look ridiculous. Believe me, plenty of people got hurt and it devastated our finances too. And he says I should have stayed with him because there are a lot of marriages worse than ours. Hello? great logic. No thanks.</p>
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		<title>Comment on How I Would Prevent a Guy From Cheating&#8230; by asg</title>
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		<dc:creator>asg</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 22:36:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>My husband and I had been married (happily, I thought) for 23 years and were the proud parents of six amazing children when he began having an affair. Every single point this writer makes is true and should be heeded. When my husband&#039;s affair became known, I made him move out, his children refused to talk to him, and his mistress, fearing she&#039;d lose her kids in a divorce battle, dumped him. Having given up everything for the affair, he committed suicide. Yes, mine is a tragic story, but the author is right: NOBODY will come away from an affair unscathed. Now, almost three years later, I am still dealing with the grieving and loss his children feel.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My husband and I had been married (happily, I thought) for 23 years and were the proud parents of six amazing children when he began having an affair. Every single point this writer makes is true and should be heeded. When my husband&#8217;s affair became known, I made him move out, his children refused to talk to him, and his mistress, fearing she&#8217;d lose her kids in a divorce battle, dumped him. Having given up everything for the affair, he committed suicide. Yes, mine is a tragic story, but the author is right: NOBODY will come away from an affair unscathed. Now, almost three years later, I am still dealing with the grieving and loss his children feel.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Online Dating Wisdom from Hall and Oates by Julie</title>
		<link>http://advice.eharmony.com/blog/2012/05/14/online-dating-wisdom-from-hall-and-oates/comment-page-1/#comment-7524</link>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 21:28:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is one of the best posts I&#039;ve read in eHarmony Advice. Thanks for combining music and love. Worth sharing and humming to.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is one of the best posts I&#8217;ve read in eHarmony Advice. Thanks for combining music and love. Worth sharing and humming to.</p>
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		<title>Comment on What’s the Worst First Date You’ve Ever Experienced? by Marita</title>
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		<dc:creator>Marita</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 19:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>My worst first date was with a man who has been a close friend ever since. 17 years ago. He just wouldn&#039;t talk! It was like pulling teeth!!! We never dated again, until his wife lent him to me on valentine&#039;s day right after I split from my husband....he wouldn&#039;t shut up at that point! lol</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My worst first date was with a man who has been a close friend ever since. 17 years ago. He just wouldn&#8217;t talk! It was like pulling teeth!!! We never dated again, until his wife lent him to me on valentine&#8217;s day right after I split from my husband&#8230;.he wouldn&#8217;t shut up at that point! lol</p>
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		<title>Comment on How I Would Prevent a Guy From Cheating&#8230; by Christine</title>
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		<dc:creator>Christine</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 18:56:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I thought this article was outstanding. I have been the cheated upon wife. The author is right in saying it is the worst sort of pain that humans can go through. It does me good to hear that there are people who feel so strongly against cheating. In this world it seems, tearing a family apart and then having to sit at your kids baseball games with the culprits is just par for the course.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I thought this article was outstanding. I have been the cheated upon wife. The author is right in saying it is the worst sort of pain that humans can go through. It does me good to hear that there are people who feel so strongly against cheating. In this world it seems, tearing a family apart and then having to sit at your kids baseball games with the culprits is just par for the course.</p>
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