Cheating in a Relationship

[Weltall]

Our relationship was like a Led Zeppelin song.

A good recommendation for this situation is "Your Time Is Gonna Come" :D

I was with a woman last year and we were pretty serious for awhile, but things started to get sour. Unfortunately, I was pretty ignorant of the signs, I thought things were just A-OK, more or less, but in reality I was caught up in it all and we were moving along a little too quickly, most of which was my fault. Her solution to to the problem was to drive me away, and to do so, she told me she had cheated on me with a former boyfriend. At the time, I had little reason to doubt her, and it was a fantastically nasty shock which drove me to hate her for a good while. Had I been a more observant boyfriend, I would have noticed things had not been as well as I thought, and also, had I been thinking logically I would have realized that she lied to me about cheating, and that it was just to get me to take off (this ex of hers is a friend now, and for lack of a better explanation, they'll never be more than that and haven't been for years). We didn't speak to each other for almost an entire year, but our paths did cross again a few months ago. We got to talking, and we explained many things to each other, and realized just what our problems were. We also realized that we still had feelings for each other and that neither of us had been very happy since we broke up, so we started it again on a trial basis, and since then, we've blossomed back into a relationship. And thankfully this time, we're both more observant and definitely a little more cautious.

Yeah, there was a point here :D

I know now that she didn't cheat, but for a long time I thought she had, and that was quite simply the worst feeling I've ever experienced in my life. The first few weeks after we broke up I was in a deep depression, and that's saying a lot coming from me, because I usually get over things very quickly. I have several good friends to thank for helping me through that. Some people can handle depression, I couldn't. That kind was completely new to me. I have good friends. And now I'm happy that her and I patched things up and so far we're doing just fine.