This is how likely it is that someone will cheat again after cheating once

My hope for true, monogamous love seems to be getting smaller by the week: everywhere people cheat. Celebrity after celebrity is exposed thanks to gossip channels, but I also see it happening quite often in my surroundings. And call me a negative person, but I don't really believe that people just make a mistake once. Because when does it seriously stay at just one time? I have yet to experience it, and if that happens, then you are more the exception than the rule (lucky you).

Does this sound very sad? Well... It is a bit. Secure Forensics actually researched this: how many people cheat again after they have cheated once? And those numbers don't lie. If someone cheated in their previous relationship, there is a 45 percent chance that he/she will do it again in the next relationship, compared to 18 percent of people who were faithful in their previous relationship. Still quite a high percentage: the chance is at best one in five that your partner will cheat.

But what if your partner has cheated and you have decided to forgive him/her? In that case, the saying ‘once a cheater, always a cheater’ holds true: there is a 350 percent chance that that person will do it again, compared to someone who has never cheated. Yep, let that percentage sink in.

So the advice is to dump them right away. Or you have to assume (and be okay with it) that your partner will most likely cheat again. Neither option is really pleasant, but unfortunately: for the victims, it doesn't look good either. According to Secure Forensics, the chance is also greater that people who are cheated on will be cheated on again in their next relationship — that chance is greater than if it has never happened to you.

Now if you would excuse me, I'm going to continue living my life and not believe in true love anymore.

Source: Secure Forensics