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How to Deal With the Guilt of Cheating in a Relationship

10 Ways to save yourself and your relationship

Barsha Kar
Psych Times Publication
7 min readAug 8, 2023
Guilt of infidelity
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Guilt is a negative feeling that causes more harm to your soul than a mistake.

And when it comes to the guilt of cheating your partner, it will never end.

But like all other negative emotions, it’s a kind of low-frequency energy that can neither be created nor destroyed. You can convert it from low to high, from negative to positive.

So, there’s no reason to keep it until death and limit your life to a single event.

The main question here is “How”?

This article will discuss the ultimate way to overcome that feeling and start living your life again.

Now let’s begin!

What are cheating and guilt?

Before knowing how to heal your soul, you must clearly understand these complex words.

Sometimes, what we think of an event is not what’s reality.

Most guilt, shame, and regret-like feelings come when we are bound to a committed relationship and feel the lack of something in our journey.

And when someone else interests us and fulfills our desires, we cheat on our commitment.

If it feels like cheating, then ask yourself why you have cheated on your partner. Wasn’t it the relationship you chose to remain loyal to forever?

This can make you realize the reason behind such infidelity. However, the fact here is that cheating was your choice. And that might be due to the lack of consciousness and the crazy drive to experience something new.

And after that irreversible mistake, if you have a deadly fear that your relationship will end, you need to think about this again!

Now let’s move on to guilt after breaking a relationship after infidelity. If you’ve had affairs elsewhere and now realize that you cheated on your partner badly, then guilt is the feeling that will cause more damage to you and the person you cheated on.

So, here are a few tips to eliminate such negative feelings and begin your life…

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