The cheater’s rationalization follows a simple path:

* Cheating is bad.

* Therefore, Cheaters are bad people. 

* But I’m not a bad person.

* Therefore, I am not a cheater. 

* Therefore, whatever I did wasn’t really cheating. 

* Since I wasn’t the one who broke the rules, it must have been you.

* Therefore, you caused the affair when you (insert some failure here).

* Hiding the affair from you was my right, and you deserve to be fooled because it is your fault I had an affair.

* Besides, lying is bad and I’m not a bad person, so I wasn’t really lying when…

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