You're welcome and thank you Jeremiah for making this. We were fortunate to have a good up bringing and having people like you helping our parents to reinforce their lessons in religion class.

joeyr, it is funny that you should bring that up because I was just thinking about that not too long ago. There was a song where a person's spouse (or maybe significant other, I don't know) was cheating and the song indicated that all the person could think of to do was to go after the person whom the spouse was cheating with. Then the end indicates that the person acted like nothing had happened and let the awful spouse play their tricks on them. When I was thinking about this, I thought "what a fool." If I was in that character's shoes, I would have said, "Oh no you don't sweetheart! Despite what you think, I don't have "Moron" written on my forehead. You were unfaithful to me, and you're not going to get away with it by telling me your attracted to me."

Both party members deserve equal blame. I agree that all too often in our circles a man gets away with doing this crap, and sometimes gets complimented for it ("congrats man, you got her [use your imagination here].") When I hear this, it makes me sick. Cheating is not something to be proud of, it is something to be ashamed of. However, I can tell you that sometimes women also get off too easily as well.

A girl I knew had a reputation for being one who was, well, easy. All the other guys would kiss up to her like she was the only woman still alive. I personally never liked her because she was too shallow for my taste and there were other things about her (which I will not discuss in order to remain polite and suitable for PG rated audiences) that were the conflicted with my taste. She got praised by everyone all the time despite the fact that she was known to cheat on her boyfriends. She managed to break almost every friendship made in our group apart by cheating with the best friend of her current boyfriend over and over again. The annoying factor was, no one ever blamed her. I was the only one would stand up and point out what was going on, and guess who the bad guy? Me, the messenger. They still treated her like she was the only girl in the universe, and the sad thing was she was at the top of the pecking order over the girls, so the girls didn't get on her case either. It wasn't until years later that they discovered that I was right. This is the reason why I won't date girls who are unfaithful. If they are unfaithful now against their current boyfriend, they will eventually be unfaithful against me.

Another thing, both males and females need to learn to stop talking about whom they think is attractive while their significant other is around. It is one of the most rude things you can do to your significant other. A good indicator of whether or not it is appropriate to talk about this while they are around is if you wouldn't mind if your significant other talked about how attractive another person is while your around. I don't know why people think it is okay to do this, but I find that incredibly rude and to be a personal insult.[sm=rant.gif]

Sorry for going on about this topic, I'm kind of irritated about this subject right now due to events which are currently going on in my life.