fuck 'em both, at the very least...

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[–] 93 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I expect the "close friend" is no longer close, but the person who broke the promise, to whatever degree the promise was there, is the one who should get the most shit.

I say this as someone whose wife cheated on me. She broke her vows, she chose to cheat instead of just leaving me, he was incidental and could have been anyone. I can hardly blame him, my wife was hot af, and she lied to him, of course.

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  • [–] 65 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I have two friends who first met because one was this girl's "platonic cuddle buddy" and the other was her fuckbuddy. Neither knew she was effectively getting half the relationship from the other and they both wanted a "full" relationship with her until they both showed up at an event she was at and it came out. When they found out they both "dumped" her and became friends.

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  • [–] 54 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    Ive been on the wrong end of this a few times. A woman comes chatting to me in the pub, and then the boyfriend turns up and starts trying to fight me.

    Mate, I dont even know her name let alone her relationship status. Your problem is not with me.

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    You guys ever get sick of having so much money? I know I sure do.

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    [–] 25 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    This reads to me as shitting equally on both of them.

    For what's it's worth, the close friend would be dead to me whereas the ex is just an ex?

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  • [–] 18 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I mean. Why would you want to have people ask you about this and remember it for the rest of your life?

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    If they spent a lot of life together, it may not be an option to just forget. Move on, yes, but not forget. Having a tatoo imprinting 24/7 the one funny part of the story may force your brain to let go faster.

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  • [–] 17 points 5 months ago

    Why not just get a tattoo off the dog then?

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  • [–] 34 points 5 months ago (10 children)

    That’s a cool story, and a well done tattoo, but… We all know that dog really has no clue what that lady did wrong. He’s just a bitey boy.

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  • [+] 3 points 5 months ago (4 children)
  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I have one piece of capital A art. It's a watercolor of the Y in South lake Tahoe (you know the intersection) and it also looks like a dog living its best life. Some famous dude painted it for gran for saving his life. Now it's mine!

    If you don't know the area, it just looks like splotches. Or a dog licking its balls. But if you know the area, those few streaks of ink evoke home.

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  • [+] -9 points 5 months ago* (5 children)

    Waitwaitwait...

    Doggo has a sensitive nose. We know he had to notice a strong smell of another male and scent of sex on the ex.

    Now, there is a really, really small, almost nonexistant chance that the doggo connected the dots and assumed she betrayed the pack.

    And sure, chance is really low...but I also don't see a lot of claims to similiar story and if something has extremely small chance of happening, it still may happen. xD

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago* (4 children)

    More than likely the dog detected anxiety/hesitation/etc, saw that as prey/weak pack behavior and attacked accordingly. Dog would probably attack children.

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  • [–] -1 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    We reeeeaaaally wanna believe all dogs are kill machines, don't we? Also dunno if someone who cheats would feel anxiety, isn't there tendency that cheaters blame their faithful partners?

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    You really think that dog lacks a deep seated inclination to catch bodies? Even shih-tzu have it.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago

    My reaction was mostly provoked by the "Dog would probably attack children". It's funny to me that, seemingly, lemmings are more eager to assume each single dog is a non senstient killing machine rather that it tried to protect it's owner. xD

    Most dogs have instinct to hunt prey, but like with humans, they can learn to overwrite them and most under good owners do. It's werid to me when I see people immediately assume the dog is aggressive just because of one reported bite scenario, and that specific one at the same time. Like saying that a random person is overly aggresive because when you heard once that they hit someone.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Idk man not every dog has strong predatory or pack insticts but most the ones that go around biting people do.

    And people often do things in the moment and post rationalize as well. Some cheaters absolutely have anxiety, regret or complex emotions about it. Even the ones who don't might hesitate to construct a lie or evaluate whether a partner's response will be dangerous.

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    [–] 43 points 5 months ago (10 children)

    This tattoo is not likely to impress any potential new romantic interests.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    I don't dress for other people why would I get tattoos for them?

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    If we're comparing this tattoo to wardrobe choices, imagine you're single and you show up to dates dressed in a t-shirt that says "I enjoyed it when my dog attacked my previous romantic partner" and the effect that might have on your whole vibe with the other person.

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    Everything about this is trashier than your average junkyard.

    Gross.

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  • [–] 36 points 5 months ago* (6 children)

    Hi, dog speaker here, that dog is actually pretty upset. Dogs won't show their teeth or really the whites of their eyes like this unless they're uncomfortable.

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  • [–] 18 points 5 months ago

    Uh, this isn't true. My dog literally smiles when she's happiest (usually during belly rubs). Belly rub from yesterday. She rolls on her back, exposes her belly, and smiles bigger and bigger as I scratch:

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    Well dog's can (sort of) simile. But I agree, the way it shows teeth combined with the look of the eye .... He's not relaxed. He's on edge or up to something, I'd be on my guard near him right now.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    My dad believes our old family dog hated my mom because she could smell other men on her.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    This dog is a Mario chain chomp

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  • [–] 19 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Well I wonder why he got cheated on lmfao

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  • [–] 17 points 5 months ago

    This guy in 6 months boo hoo hooing he can't get laid because of his "I assault women" tattoo.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    I'm sure he doesn't like his friend either

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago (18 children)

    The person in the relationship is the one with the responsibility not to cheat, they are objectively the worse person. If my partner is willing to cheat on me my friends might as well hit it because I'm not interested in continuing that relationship after that point anyway.

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  • [–] 20 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    If that happened to me, I’d be dropping both those relationships - I also expect my platonic friends not to fuck me over

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    My friend group recently excised someone because he was hard core planning on cheating on his soon to be wife.. They weren't married yet, he wanted to end the relationship bud didn't wanna be single. So he was just planning on cheating and how exactly to do it.

    We decided to cut him out of the group, because most of us have the opinion "if you're willing to fuck over your supposed partner, you're definitely willing to fuck over a friend". Add on top of that a ton of unremorseful misogyny.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    It’s so weird to me that people pre-plan cheating. You always hear the story that “it just happened”. However, now that I’m in my 40s, I’ve found that it is so often someone who spends lots of time considering it and shopping the idea around to their friends to see if they can find someone to tell them it’s ok.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah, 100%. A few of us tried to talk him out of it. 3 of us had independent 1:1 conversations with him saying it wasn't cool. And if he's not happy in his relationship now, it won't magically get better (he knew that to be true) and he should break it off. However he refused, unless he had a sure thing for a relationship immediately after.

    He wanted to use one of our (my SO and me) best friends as "option B" and also had graphic and very explicit fantasies about this individual. He told one of the others that was trying to have a "come to your senses" talk with him about these fantasies, unsolicited. To the point he was apparently graphically imagining fucking them after we had just hung out, while he was home laying in bed next to his Fiancee.

    He also said that de wasn't worried about the wedding coming up. The quote "whether I break it off now or a day before the wedding, its the same emotional and financial toll, so I shouldn't rush it". And he wouldn't be willing to get a divorce once they had kids. He didn't want kids, but she did, and he caved.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago

    Ugh we just got cut out of our friend group for very similar situation, except the asshole won. He almost cheated on his then fiance, he did screw over his "best friend" my husband, and when he learned my husband had told me about the emotional affair, he manipulated us and everyone, campaigned against us and eventually got us disliked and dropped by everyone. It really sucked, these were lifelong friends. My only hope is that they eventually all see who he is. I doubt it, as it's been a year and a half, and his now wife just had a baby. I feel the worst for her in the situation.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (9 children)

    Aren't your friends expected to avoid hurting you also?

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (8 children)

    If my partner is willing to cheat they are the one hurting me. If it's not with my friend it'd be with someone else eventually but i guess it depends on how they handle it. If my friend tells me immediately then I'm not going to care because that allows me to not waste any more time with the cheater. They're doing me a favor by exposing them as the trash they are sooner rather than later. Might as well get laid for their trouble. If they go behind my back for weeks thus causing me to waste time and energy on a cheater then I'd be pissed.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    I don't understand this at all. If my partner cheats with a stranger, then sure-- all the blame is on my partner. The stranger doesn't know me. But a friend? They are betraying the relationship between us just as my partner is. My expectations for a friend would be more along the lines of "hey man, you really ought to know that your partner tried to fuck me", rather than "btw bro, I got it off with your partner" (high-five??).

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    As far as I'm concerned the relationship is over the instant my partner decides to cheat on me. Whether they get rejected or not. My friend telling me about it has the same end result either way. So I don't really consider it a betrayal assuming they do tell me. The cheater was going to cheat sooner or later anyway might as well get it over with.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Even if she's immediately an ex due to her behavior, I think a lot of people would rather their close friends not sleep with an ex. It's like, if you two fall in love after we're over, you can't stop love, but if you're just getting your rocks off, there are plenty of fish

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    I guess it's just an each to their own thing. Once someone cheats on me I'm done with them. I don't care what they do. None of my friends are stupid enough to get into an actual relationship with a known cheater but even if they did it's not like it'd be the first time I had to ignore a SO someone was bringing around that I didn't like.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (3 children)

    I don't understand how you consider one action a betrayal of trust and not the other. Is your friendship also not over the instant your friend decides to sleep with your partner? I guess you have different kinds of friendships than I do.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

    None of my friends would try and initiate something like that. However if my friend tries to fuck my SO and my SO rejects them then I'm going to have a problem with my friend harassing my SO. If my SO goes along with it and cheats on me then my friend has revealed my SO's colors and that relationship wasn't worth shit in the first place, they've done me a favor. No sense in also tanking a friendship over it.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Right on, but I just can't relate.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Yeah, this is just my own opinion I don't expect everyone to agree. Everyone approaches relationships in their own way. Also want to say that just because I feel this way about it doesn't mean I would ever be the friend being cheated with. Cheaters disgust me so I'd be on the phone immediately telling them about how they propositioned me. So maybe that makes me some kind of hypocrite.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago

    What do you mean, never? This is like the most common thing ever, both as a movie trope and in real life. Guy A sleeps with girlfriend of Guy B, and instead of getting mad at his girlfriend who broke her agreement with him, Guy B goes and beats up Guy A. Now I understand also being angry at the friend, but it should be secondary to being angry at the girlfriend. Anything else is sexist and views the woman as an object IMO

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    Omg, that dog is gonna get overweight from all the chimkem nuggers. Goodest boi.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Maybe she did shit on your friend? Did you bother to ask?

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Did you let the dog keep the bone?

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Couldn't she require the dog to get executed if she's a real bitch, from the sound of it she is.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    least crazed monogamous person

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I got the shotgun, should I put down both of them or just the human?

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  • [–] -2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Because it's always the woman who is blamed either way

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  • [–] -2 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    I see your question and raise you one bros before hoes

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  • [–] 25 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    I suppose that makes sense if your interpretation of "bros before hoes" is simply "men are to be preferred above women in any circumstance." but if you consider that "bros before hoes" is actually supposed to mean "loyalty to your friends is more important than the arbitrary pursuit of fleeting sexual pleasure," that's actually a condemnation of the friend for doing the exact opposite as efficiently as possible

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  • [–] -4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    That close friend did him a favor exposing she was going to cheat anyway. Close friend should be there grinning with the dog

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