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Dealing with the after-effects of cheating

Well, I just got out of a nightmare of a relationship. I got together with a younger man because he said he was single. The first few weeks were nice, but his "ex" girlfriend who he was still seeing and running errands for, would call repeatedly, over and over, until he picked up the phone. I would sit there and listen to him play with her on the phone and flirt with her and then he'd leave to run an errand for her. I didn't care at first because I hardly knew him, but then I realized that he was lying about her all the time. He would tell me that he hadn't talked to her in weeks, but his phone showed they talked everyday, a few times a day. To this day, he still lies to me about her. He told me, when we met, that he had tickets to go on a cruise with her, but he didn't have to go if he didn't want to. 2 months later he decided to go on the cruise. I was really into him and told him I liked him alot, loved being with just him, and basically, didn't want him to go. He said he felt the same. He told me that he didn't have to go, but he went anyway. He had unprotected anal sex with her on the cruise. When he returned, he assumed that because I went to my girlfriends house the next night, that I was seeing someone else so he met some girl off the web and had unprotected anal sex with her too. He continued the affair with the whorey web girl for awhile, lying to my face about it the whole time. He said he told her that he had a girlfriend, but I'm sure that was a lie too.

After awhile, he moved in and I gave him a key, still not knowing about the whores he was having unprotected sex with. When it all finally came out, he accused me of sending her to him. I guess he couldn't deal with the fact that he's a pathetic, disgusting whore himself so he had to blame it on me. I should have known then that he was insane. I was so disgusted after I found out that when he touched me, I cringed and it felt like his hands were searing my flesh. I felt dirty just being in the same room with him (lesson: if someone cheats on you, leave them, no matter how much you feel for them because they'll do it again.) I'm sure there were other girls that he failed my mention. Lies of ommission.
He was really distrustful of ME and I couldn't figure out why. It was because HE was cheating. I gave him a key to my life, he answered my phone, read my emails with me, etc. I introduced him to almost all of my friends and he still didn't believe a thing I said even though we were together all the


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