Other People's Relationships, that is.
I've been thinking about this recently cuz there's been a lot of the usual summer debauchery going on around here. Lots of people back for the summer and fucking each other/everyone in sight, etc. But this year in particular it seems like it's open season on supposedly committed people. Several people I know have fucked Other People's Men or Women, including one chick I know who's practically made it into a sport.
Now I don't normally give much of a shit about this kinda thing, once it doesn't involve me. And thankfully Amy and I have a relationship where neither of us has to worry about the other cheating. But seeing all these sluts fucking people who ought not to be fucking around is beginning to piss me off a little.
Don't get me wrong, I still place the vast majority of the blame on the people who are in the relationships, cuz nobody's forcing them to cheat. I'm also not some sanctimonious asshole who claims to be above cheating. I've cheated before, although never on Amy, but at the end of a bad relationship a couple of times I've had things fall into my lap and not said no. But it seems to me that there's a difference, albeit a slight one, between cheating sort of by accident, and actively going looking for it.
And I reckon there's also a difference from the other perspective - being a single person fucking someone who's spoken for is one thing if it happens sort of randomly (been there too), but having absolutely no regard for anyone's relationship is another. Particularly if one knows both people in the relationship! I have no idea how people get around the guilt they ought to feel when they then see the couple out at a bar or whatever. I guess some people just don't feel guilty?
Thoughts?