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The first time I cheated on a girlfriend I was in an exclusive relationship with, I listened the the same advice everyone else is posting here. I listened to people who told me that telling her would be selfish because it would only serve to take some weight off my shoulders and it would hurt her. So I kept it to myself for a while as it slowly started to eat away at me. I knew that, if she had cheated on me, I would want her to tell me. I didn't understand people who said they'd prefer not knowing.
How did my young dumb ass deal with this? By cheating even more, of course! Yeah, makes no sense. I dunno. Eventually she found out and it was a shit show.
Just going with the truth all the time makes life easier in the long run, IMO.
To contrast Chief, I haven't told my girlfriend with regards to my first ever cheating experience.
Mind you I was also a young dumb ass at the time. However, maybe I'm more of a pragmatist. Who knows. That relationship lasted 2 and a half more years since the incident. She never found out. As far as guilt goes, it faded in 1-2 weeks.
I guess it depends on you. For me, a drunken hookup isn't really that huge of a deal. But it goes both ways. So it didn't eat me up inside.