Broken Relationships

Speaking on my own personal experience and those that I’ve witnessed within other relationships. Is this what we have succumbed to?? Must the average relationship be a statistic? I know people who’ve been cheated on and have been able to repair their relationship with the offender. I salute you! But, I also know people, such as myself, who have not even the desire to repair after the betrayal. Speaking as a woman to the rest of them, are we really accepting that “a man will be a man”, applying that meaning to “all men cheat” and accepting it as our reality for what we will have to endure?? I don’t know about you, but when I think on what being a man is (or at least a good one), it’s someone who’s honorable, having self-control, is a man of his word, and is aware of himself, both what he’s strong in, and in the areas that he’s weak in, where he’s likely to stumble, so he can do his best to avoid them. We shouldn’t be accepting of a man who is selfish; has no self-control, who feeds into the lust of his flesh, even at the expense of his own relationship. Not all men cheat, that which is a premeditated doing, not “a mistake”. There are men who are slammed with temptation, but will think with his head and not his appendage, and choose to go the other way, instead. So, don’t settle my beloved sister. Do not accept that part of “a man being a man” is someone who you will have to accept cheating on you in your relationship. That’s not love. From what I’ve seen, a man who’s most capable of exercising this form of self-control, is the man surrendered to God, taking heed to the Holy Spirit, aiming to protect your heart, your union and everything that you’ve built together. So, wait, just wait. It’s better to be alone forever, than to settle for what it seems the world is settling for.