I Shouldn’t Have to Defend My Choice to Stay with My Partner After He Cheated

It’s just not as simple as people like to think it is

Cassandra Here
The Scarlett Letter
5 min readJul 18, 2021

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I recently wrote out my feelings about the ‘other woman,’ and in many instances, the comments I got were reminders that the situation was my partner’s fault, suggestions that I should leave him, or implications that because I chose to forgive…

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