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Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Dating and Mating The maintenance of monogamy

Posted By on Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 3:32 PM

I have a confession to make.

I used to cheat in high school.

I was struggling in Geometry, so I stole the answer key for the textbook quizzes, then made copies of them and sold them to my classmates. It wasn't the most ethical thing, I know, but I knew I'd never use Geometry in my real life, so I focused on my entrepreneurial skills instead.

I also cheated on my high school boyfriend.

I got an A in geometry, but I failed that test of life.

It took me as long to garner forgiveness as it did to figure out why I even did it. But I did figure out right away that I never want to betray someone ever again. I wrote my cheating off like an underage juvenile offense — because everything before 18 doesn’t count and gets scratched off your record, right? Except when it comes to karma. And I've accepted the karma of being cheated on in my future relationships. I threw a boomerang, and it came back around.

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So why do we cheat?

If you're always wondering what's on the other side of door No. 2, then why even close the door and be in a relationship? It's not fair to lock someone in while you're off wandering through the neighbor's greener grass … or Suite or Butter.

I have come to the conclusion that I cheated because I wanted to resurrect that nervous excitement you feel in the beginning of a romance, the one that has a tendency of wearing off after you get comfortable in a relationship. And rather than being honest and addressing this to my boyfriend in fear of losing his security, I went behind his back to fill the void he couldn't. I wanted to have my cake and chocolate frosting. But those weren't butterflies, I was just hungry for something more. But once that "Za-Za-Zu" wears off, which does faster than alcohol, you're stuck with the "Za-Za-Eww" — a guilty conscious, bad karma, and a broken heart you're responsible for.

So before you go crawl into someone else's bed, remember that when you make that bed, you'll have to lie in it, alone.

Since when did monogamy become something you have to continually work on in a relationship to maintain it?

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