Cheating quotes to help you through possibly one of the toughest times of your life. Helping you understand it was never about you, it was only about them. To give you a sense of peace that there’s nothing you could have done to change the situation or them. A fascinating 2021 study involving 495 people who cheated in their relationship revealed 8 key reasons for their reason of them being unfaithful to partners: anger, self-esteem, lack of love, low commitment, need for variety, neglect, sexual desire, and situation or circumstance.
These reasons not just revealed why they committed cheating, but also how long they were unfaithful and if they developed affection towards the person they cheated with. When it came to if the relationship survived cheating, in most cases, it only did when it was a reason related to the situation or circumstance. The relationship with the person they cheated with also didn’t last long with only one out of 10 affairs leading to a committed relationship.
Psychologically, cheating can have both short-term and long-term effects on the faithful partner. They can end up feeling dejected, alone, betrayed, and confused. If their emotional responses aren’t dealt with on time, either through self-work like journaling, meditation, or professional work, it can spiral into a mental illness. If you’re someone who has been cheated on recently, here are some inspirational relationship cheating quotes to help you emotionally.
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Cheater/ Cheating Quotes
#1 “Cheating is a personal decision, some people will never cheat no matter how hard things are; others will always cheat no matter how good they have it.”
#2 “You don’t have to have sex to be a cheater. Once you start hiding text messages, lying about where you’re going and who you’re going with, you’re already on your way.”
#3 “If you’re with someone, you honor the agreement. And if you can’t, you have the decency, the integrity, to break it the fuck off. Before fucking around with other people.”
#4 “Cheating is a choice, not a mistake.”
#5 “Sometimes things break your heart, but fix your vision.”
#6 “Before I could protest, you ran off with another, leaving my heart more broken, knowing I would never recover.”
#7 “Cheating only thrills those who can’t see the beauty of faithfulness.”
#8 “Unfaithfulness is the fire extinguisher of love.”
#9 “You cannot cheat others without first cheating yourself.” ~ (Cheater Quotes)
#10 “Cheating is very easy, try something challenging like being faithful to yourself, your dreams, and your partner. After all, it is how responsible we are of ourselves, dreams, and partners that we get to mature and grow wiser and responsible.”
#11 “Those who cheat on their partners who’re loyal to them, don’t deserve them.”
#12 “Someone who loves you wouldn’t put themselves in a position to lose you.”
#13 “You have to be incredibly twisted to tell someone you love them when you don’t even respect them enough to be faithful or honest.”
#14 “And I hate how you made me question myself when the problem was you all along.” ~ (Cheating Quotes)
#15 “No way you can love her and be comfortable with making her look like a fool to some random ass girl who “means nothing to you.”
#16 “In the end, they both lost. He lost a woman that would’ve never given up on him and she lost the woman she was before he broke her heart.”
#17 “You can’t cheat on someone if you’re in love with them, you just can’t do it, you wouldn’t even consider doing it. If you can cheat on someone you claim to be in love with, you’re not in love, you’re just in love with the idea of being in love.”
#18 “The worst feeling in the world is knowing you’ve been used and lied to by someone you trusted.”
#19 “Once a cheater, always a repeater.”
#20 “You knew exactly what you were doing. That’s what hurts the most.”
#21 “Cheating is the most disgusting, hurtful, and disrespectful thing you could do to someone you say you love.”
#22 “Cheating isn’t always kissing, touching, or flirting. If you gotta delete your text messages so your partner won’t see them, you’re already there.”
#23 “If you cheat, you’re trash. I don’t care what the situation is, doesn’t matter. Nobody deserves to fall asleep at night wondering why they weren’t enough.” ~ (Cheating Quotes For Him)
#24 “Cheating and lying are never mistakes. That crap is planned.”
#25 “There’s a reason why they’d rather hold their phone more than they touch you. There’s a reason why they’d rather stare at a screen instead of looking you in the eye. There’s a reason why they’re no longer available, mentally checking out on you. There’s something or someone in that little handheld device that has become more important than you are, understand this, and slowly but surely, move on.”
Karma About Cheating Quotes
#26 “The best revenge is to just happily move on and let the karma do the rest.”
#27 “A cheater’s punishment is to live a life of mistrust because they live in constant fear that the person they cheated with will also cheat on them; some call it poetic justice but I call it Karma.”
#28 “Karma=69. You get what you give.”
#29 “If you succeed in cheating someone, don’t think that they are a fool, realize that they trusted you much more than you deserve.”
#30 “Be careful home wreckers, go ahead and mess with someone else’s man knowingly. One day your most treasured relationship will be ruined in the same way. Karma.”
#31 “A strong woman doesn’t seek revenge. She just sits back and lets karma do the dirty work.”
#32 “Karma said, “A time to come in your life when some people will regret why they treated you wrong.””
#33 “If another girl steals your men, there’s no better revenge than letting her keep him. Real men can’t be stolen.”
#34 “You can’t do ugly things to people and expect to live a beautiful life.” ~ (Cheating Quotes For Men)
#35 “The best revenge is to show them your life gets better when they are gone.”
#36 “Karma says – Remember, if you are cheating with someone who loves you deeply, you are gonna face the same cheating by someone else you love truly and be ready for it. Because karma never does partiality.”
#37 “Cheating is always a choice. But before you cheat, ask yourself, “Does my partner deserves it?”
#38 “If another woman is talking to your man then she’s not the problem. He is. If he was a loyal man, he wouldn’t give another woman the opportunity to be around.”
#39 “The worst feeling in the world is knowing you’ve been used and lied to by someone you trusted.”
#40 “You’re not jealous, you’re not insecure, you deserve a man that won’t force you to feel like you have to compete with other women.”
#41 “The more chances you give to someone the less respect they will start to have for you. They will begin to ignore the standards that you’ve set because they will know another chance will always be given. They are not afraid to lose you because they know no matter what you won’t walk away. They get comfortable with depending on your forgiveness. Never let a person get comfortable disrespecting you.” ~ (Cheated On Quotes)
#42 “Remember: they cheated because they wanted to, they lied because they could, and now they’re sorry because they got caught. It’s always about them. You did nothing to cause or deserve it.”
#43 “I think if people could step inside a person who has been betrayed by the love of their life and feel the agony it causes, no one who is human would have it in their heart to cause someone that much pain and heartache.”
#44 “I forgive, but I also learn a lesson. I won’t hate you, but I will never get close enough for you to hurt me again. I can’t let my forgiveness become foolishness.”
#45 “One day you’re going to miss my boring texts, my random calls, my silly questions, you will miss my fight, my mood swings, my arguments, my possessiveness, and my insecurities. But most of all you will miss the way I cared for you.” ~ (Cheating Quotes For Her)
#46 “If they ask you about me, tell them: She was the only person that loved me with honesty, and I broke her.”
#47 “Ever noticed after a breakup the loyal one stays single and deals with the damages until healed? The cheater is already in another relationship.”
#48 “It’s never easy for a good woman to walk away; especially after she’s invested so much of herself into making it work. Just know that by the time, she finally decides to leave, she’s given you countless chances and debated the idea, over and over in her head, at least 1000 times. She is exhausted, she is frustrated, and totally heartbroken to have to walk away from a man who, deep down inside, she still loved and is still willing to fight for.”
Cheated On Quotes
#49 “You didn’t just cheat on me, you cheated on us. You didn’t just break my heart; you broke my future.”
#50 “Cheaters are cowards that are tempted to chase the fantasy of what could be…instead of courageously addressing their own self-destructive behavior and cultivating what is.”
#51 “Cheating on a good person is like throwing away a diamond and picking up a rock.”
#52 “I think I was stupid enough to have faith in you when I could clearly see the signs. I gave you more than you deserved.”
#53 “It is not easy to forgive and let go but remind yourself that harboring the resentment will only aggravate your pain.” ~ (Cheating Quotes Savage)
#54 “Secrets and lies kill relationships. No matter how careful you are, you will get caught.”
#55 “Cheaters always want you to be loyal while they’re being unfaithful.”
#56 “The hardest thing you can do is look back and see what the person you love has done to you.”
#57 “Even the most trusted person could lie. Even the best friend could change. Even the sweetest man could cheat. Even the strongest friendship could ruin. Even the person you love the most could be gone. Sad to think. Hard to accept. But this is the reality.”
#58 “You can’t change someone who doesn’t see an issue in themselves.”
#59 “After cheating, the hardest thing you can do is look back and see what the person you love has done to you.”
#60 “My heart breaks for anyone who lays in bed at night and wonders why they weren’t enough for the one person they would give the world to. That shit ruins you!”~ (Karma On Cheating Quotes)
#61 “Just because someone is strong enough to handle being cheated on, lied to, disrespected, and ignored for no apparent reason, doesn’t mean they deserve that type of nonsense.”
#62 “If you can cheat on your girl and come home, look her in the eye and tell her you to love her then you’re the lowest kind of person that exists.”
#63 “Her turned my world upside down. Shattered my heart. Made me doubt his love was ever real. It felt as though I had lost my past, my future, and everything I thought I knew. This is what cheating does. That, and so much more.”
#64 “I wish I could give you my pain for one moment. Not to hurt you, but so that you could finally understand how much you hurt me.”
#65 “Most perpetrators of emotional affairs will downplay the seriousness of the event by claiming that “we’re just friends” or “it’s no big deal, nothing happened.””
#66 “Lying or cheating in a relationship is not limited to sleeping with someone else. It’s also when you fantasize about someone else. When your thoughts are with someone else. It’s when you lie about being busy at work, but yet you find time to talk to someone else. It’s when you delete texts and calls that you made to another person. It’s when you can’t answer your partner’s questions and look into their eyes when they are speaking to you; you feel uncomfortable.”
#67 “Cheating is the most disrespectful thing one human being can do to another. If you aren’t happy in a relationship, end it before starting with another one.”
#68 “A real man will cut off any female that threatens his relationship with his woman, a boy will make excuses.”
#69 “Trust takes years to build, seconds to break, and forever to repair.”
#70 “I stayed with you for so long throughout the bullshit because I was torn between not giving up on the person that I loved, and coming to terms with the fact that the person that I loved no longer existed inside of the body that I was staring at every day, and I don’t give a fuck what anyone says…that’s a really difficult and painful thing to wrap your brain around. It takes a while to believe it.”
#71 “The meaning of loyalty doesn’t just mean being in a relationship and not having sex with someone. Being loyal is about respect. This means you don’t go talk to other girls, call other girls beautiful, like their pictures, text & flirt with people on the side, or hurt them in any way. Loyal means you respect their emotions making sure she & everyone else knows she is your one & only without a doubt. You don’t do things that you know will hurt or hurt them. You don’t throw things from their past in their face, you’re there for the endless support. Loyalty is being someone’s backbone through heaven and hell, good and bad, and being there when no one else is. No. Matter. What. That’s Loyalty.” ~ (Cheating Quotes In Love)
#72 “Stop liking other women’s half-naked pics on Instagram if you’re in a relationship. Stop flirting, commenting, emojing, and entertaining other women who aren’t your woman. You are disrespecting her, and making her look stupid. If you’re not ready to commit, give a real man a chance.”
Relationship Cheating Quotes
#73 “What irritated me the most in that entire situation was the fact that I wasn’t feeling humiliated, or annoyed, or even fooled. Betrayal was what I felt, my heart was broken by a guy I was in love with, but also by, I once believed, my true friend.”
#74 “Cheating on a girl is deeper than people realize. It destroys her outlook on love, her future relationships, and her peace within herself.”
#75 “A fake boyfriend will put a lock on his phone. A real boyfriend will say, “Hey baby, can you read that text for me?””
#76 “My freedom from your lies and infidelity is the most important thing right now. You made your choice. Now I am making my future a better place for me.”
#77 “They say everyone deserves a second chance but I think some people don’t need another opportunity to stab you in the back.”
#78 “Breaking someone’s trust is like crumpling up a perfect piece of paper. You can smooth it over but it’s never going to be the same again.”
#79 “Once someone cheats in the relationship, there’s no reason to stay. If they truly loved you, the would have never been cheated.”
#80 “One lie is enough to question all the truths.”
#81 “Trust takes years to build, seconds to break, and forever to repair.”
#82 “If you cheat on someone that is willing to do anything for you, you actually cheated on yourself out of true loyalty.”
#83 “When you cheat on someone, you’re telling them that they’re not good enough for you. That you never loved them. You may beg to differ, but how can you put someone you truly love in such a position? To make them doubt their self-worth? To make them question everything they thought they knew about you? To make them believe that their trust was completely misplaced?”
#84 “Cheating really hurts. It’s best to walk away, break up, or do anything but cheat. Don’t ruin someone’s outlook on love and life. Don’t fill their mind with insecurity and “I’m not good enough” thoughts because you wanted to be selfish and cheat. If you can’t love them, hurt them.”
#85 “As I was fighting for you, I realized I was fighting to be lied to; fighting to be taken for granted’ fighting to be disappointed, and fighting to be hurt again. So I started fighting to let go.”
#86 “The worst thing a man can do is listen to what she’s been through, then put her through it again.”
#87 “Anything you choose to do behind your partner’s back without them knowing is cheating. There’s no thin line here, or blurred boundaries, fuck that… If you’re sneaking behind someone’s back to give attention and effort to someone else you’re a fucking cheater.”
#88 “Amongst all pains, the pain of betrayal is most excruciating of all. People are conditioned to fill up the emptiness of their current with either dreams of the future or memories of the past, and betrayal takes away just that, the hope of togetherness in the future and more painfully the ability to extract happiness from the past.”
#89 “A man’s pride will cause him to lose a woman he loves because instead of changing his ways and apologizing he will just occupy his time with other women so that he doesn’t miss the woman he loves.” ~ (Quotes About Cheating)
#90 “Cheating isn’t always physical, flirting, or kissing. If you’re texting a woman and your partner is uncomfortable with it, but you think it’s more important for you to keep the other woman’s friendship, that’s emotional cheating.”
#91 “If you ever lose interest in me, please respect me enough to tell me. Don’t keep me in your life to gain confidence and energy from my affection, loyalty, and genuine kindness. Let me go, so I can pour my time, patience, and energy into someone who will value and respect me.”
#93 “If you cheat on a girl, then you’re weak. It means that you’re a weak man. If you’re unhappy, then leave. If you’re bored, then leave. If you’re losing feelings, then leave. You’re not supposed to stay while you’re unhappy, bored, or losing feelings and cheat on her because that will only make you feel better temporarily while it will permanently ruin the trust that’s been built between you and your girl and that’s something that will never come back and even if it does, it’s not gonna be the same and it will be something that her heart really wants to forgive you for, but her mind won’t ever let her forget it. Would you like to know why cheating makes you weak, though? It shows that you’re insecure, you’re easily manipulated, and you aren’t strong enough to fight temptation. It displays how you aren’t capable of commitment and you don’t know how to give loyalty to someone who’s given to you. It proves that you want to be loved, but you aren’t able to really love someone else because how could you do that to someone you love? You don’t. You just don’t. That is exactly why you’ll end up with nothing because you’re thinking you could find something better and you want more than what you already have, but you have forgotten that everything you need is already there and once you lose that, it will be too late to realize you fucked up knowing that you actually cheated yourself from being with an amazing girl.”
#94 “They weren’t sorry when you didn’t know. Remember that.”
#95 “The saddest end to a relationship is one where you have to break up with somebody when you’re still in love with them. It sounds bizarre but it happens, because the truth is, as powerful and as thrilling and as wonderful as it may be, love isn’t always enough, and to be in love doesn’t always mean you’re happy. You can continue to love someone even after they have hurt you, but you know deep inside yourself that it won’t ever be the same again.”
#96 “A real man stays faithful. He doesn’t have time to waste over other women because he is too busy spending his days planning new ways of making his woman smile.”
#97 “Chemistry or not, if you’re prioritizing or hiding the emotional attention or affection of another over your spouse, that is grounds for having an emotional affair.” ~ (Cheating Quotes For Relationship)
#98 “I will not compete with anyone for your love. If you entertain anyone else, be it your ex, side piece, or Instagram followers, they can have you. I will not be made a fool of giving my love and heart to someone who stores it on a shelf next to the rest of the idiots willing to play your stupid fucking games.”
#99 “Relationships are about trust. If you have to play detective, then it’s time to move on.”
Cheating Husband Quotes
#100 “Cheaters are cowards who’re afraid to say I don’t want you anymore but hang on, let me find a replacement first.”
#101 “If you think the other woman caused the break of your marriage you would be wrong. If there is a marriage and your husband loves you, there is no other woman. Put the blame where it deserves to be – on him!”
#102 “To attempt to justify a lie is much like pouring water into a bucket with no bottom while actually thinking that you have a bucket.”
#103 “It is easy to say that cheating is unacceptable. And of course, it is. But when you’re faced with the consequences of ending a marriage – like weekends without kids, less money, a smaller house, a lower stands of living, and dating again – many people can’t go there.”
#104 “A real man doesn’t have time to cheat because that man is too busy providing all of which a good woman deserves.”
#105 “You didn’t just cheat on me, you cheated your kids out of their future as a family. Hope you remember that for the rest of your miserable life.”
#106 “Cheating doesn’t happen from a lack of love, it comes from a lack of respect, from selfishness and being a scumbag.”
#107 “Sleeping alone is better than sharing your bed with someone who shares their bed with someone else when you’re not around.”
#108 “Flirting is cheating because it’s breaking a boundary within a committed relationship. In a committed relationship, we agree to give certain parts of ourselves to our partner. When we’re flirting, we’re giving sexual interest and attention that only our partner should get, we’re giving it to somebody else.” ~ (Sad Cheating Quotes)
#109 “The worst mistake a man can make is to betray a woman who actually fought the world for him and stood by him and supported him when he is going through the worst in his life.”
#110 “Cheating is not a mistake. If you’re truly in love with someone you will not be able to kiss someone else without tasting your loved one’s tears stain your lips. You will not be able to take your clothes off for someone else without feeling like a field ripped bare to its soil. Cheating is a choice, it’s a choice you made because you obviously didn’t give a single fuck about your relationship.”
#111 “The biggest rule in a relationship is no matter how mad you are at your partner, you do not go and seek someone else’s attention. You sit your ass there and make it right because that’s your person. If you can easily go to someone else, you do not love the person you’re with.”
#112 “Be very careful about having friends of the opposite sex. If you have a “friend” that you tell things to that you don’t tell your spouse, then you are creating a toxic situation. Affairs don’t start in the bedroom; they start with conversations, emails, texts, and communication that lead down a dangerous path. Protect your marriage.”
#113 “If you’re married or in a committed relationship, you shouldn’t be best friends with someone of the opposite sex. Just because you claim not to have affection for that friend doesn’t mean that friend doesn’t have affection for you. Don’t play with fire.”
#114 “Most people cheat because they’re paying more attention to what they’re missing rather than what they have.”
#115 “An extramarital affair is not about love. Nothing about an affair is love. The only thing an affair is about is pure selfishness… period. Real love and commitment take years to build upon together and it takes sacrifices. Putting your own marriage, innocent children, and entire families (damage that can last a lifetime) into any form of jeopardy just for your own sexual satisfaction and selfish needs is definitely not love.”
#116 “Rule No.1: If she asks about it, she knows about it. So don’t lie about it.” ~ (Cheating Quotes For Husband)
#117 “Such a disappointment when you defend someone for so long thinking they are different and they turn out to be just like what everyone said.”
#118 “A lying man will never be able to handle an honest woman.”
#119 “Cheating is not an accident. Falling off a bike is an accident. You don’t trip and fall into a vagina.”
#120 “A woman’s intuition is dangerous. If she keeps questioning you about a specific topic, over and over again, she isn’t really looking for an answer. Most of the time, she already knows the truth but wants to see if you’re going, to be honest with her.”
#121 “Stop asking me to trust you while I am still coughing up
water from the last time you let me drown.”
