Enabling a Cheating Friend Is Just as Bad as Cheating

My best friend cheated and I told her husband.

Bradlee Bryant
Pillow Talk

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Imagine finding out your new spouse has been cheating on you and the child you recently had together wasn’t really yours.

Pretty devastating, right?

To make things even worse, you quickly learn nearly all of your partner’s friends knew about it and covered for her.

In this story, the pregnant spouse was my best friend, and I was the one to expose her by telling her new husband the truth.

Did I do the right thing? I’m still not sure. But, I sleep much easier at night knowing I’m not one of the numerous people in her life who helped conceal her infidelity.

The way I see it, people who choose to cover for a cheater are even bigger assholes than the cheater.

Here’s a little background on my cheating ex-friend

My ex-bestie had eight bridesmaids stand up at her wedding. We all stood in front of her and her new husband’s families in ugly-ass peach dresses and vowed to support their marriage.

Less than a year later, most of those women were fully aware she had been cheating and began openly questioning the paternity of her unborn child. Several of…

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