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I fell in love almost instantly with my boyfriend when we first met. We were friends at first for a few years, but slowly our relationship evolved into something more passionate and intense. The most complicating factor about our relationship was that it was long distance. After more than a year of being with this man, I finally realized that he used long distance as an excuse to mask his inappropriate and cruel behavior. He kept me close when I served a purpose and he pushed me aside when it benefitted him to do so. Our relationship was a constant reminder that I was amazing, beautiful, and so very loved, but also disposable. My ex-boyfriend lacked empathy for my feelings, kept himself emotionally distant, did not care about my wellbeing when it came to his and used manipulation to avoid accountability and to make me believe I was the one in the wrong. He toyed with my sexual vulnerabilities and did what gave him the most pleasure without any regard for my feelings. No matter ...

Here’s the Truth You’ve just started seeing someone awesome who meets all of your qualifications (smart, hilarious, good looking, willing to sing  One Direction  songs with you… you get the gist). Everything is going smoothly, and why shouldn’t it? You’re the exception. What do we mean, the “exception”? Well, it turns out your new fling has some skeletons in his closet. He cheated on his last girlfriend; maybe he even cheated on her with you. Even if he cheated once, though, he’d never cheat on you, right? Right? “Once a cheater, always a cheater”—is that really true? These are the questions that keep you up at night as you try to figure out whether your new guy or girl is worth trusting. We can’t tell you for sure that he or she won’t cheat again, but we can definitely give you some advice about how to avoid it ahead of time. We spoke with Carole Lieberman, M.D., a Beverly Hills psychiatrist and author, to figure out what being with a cheater really mean...