History Main / CheaterGetsCheatedOn

** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7SnKx_4lQg Gold Digger Dumps Broke Boyfriend, Then Regrets Her Decision | Dhar Mann]]'': Bella is frustrated at her boyfriend, John, for being poor, so she carries out an affair with her friend Estephan as he spoils her with fancy gifts. John is heartbroken when he finds out and leaves her. Bella believes that she and Estephan are meant to be but months later, she catches him cheating on her with another girl.

** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yrBfhuCOKk Husband Gets Side Chick Pregnant, What Wife Does Will Shock You | Dhar Mann]]'': Brandon and his wife, Jamie, are unable to have children. Jamie frequently blames herself for it and laments that she will never be a mother. Brandon then admits to getting another woman, Liza, pregnant, saying that he can't be with someone who is infertile. When Brandon and Liza's baby is born, a DNA test confirms that he isn't Brandon's child -- which means all along, it was Brandon who was infertile, not Jamie. Months later, Brandon happens to run into Jamie, who has since moved on and had a child with her new partner.
** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-XGoXdCW0&list=PLnBCOhf_VBTXBuJ-si9NN6YksPyMaWjTU&index=5 Gold Digger Cheats On Husband With Boss, She Lives To Regret Her Decision | Dhar Mann]]'': Leanne cheats on her husband, Mark, with her boss, Scott. Her rationale for this is that Scott is wealthier and can buy her more material objects, like shoes and purses, that she desires. Later, Leanne catches Scott being intimate with another woman and becomes distraught.
-->'''Scott:''' ''(deadpan)'' "The truth is, I've been sleeping with your wife for the past six months."

* ''WebAnimation/EtraChanSawIt'': Because of how many stories have her involved in affairs, this trope naturally happens a few times with [[SerialHomewrecker Akane]].
** [[https://youtube.com/watch?v=nvRIztpBRVo Akane]] [[RunawayBride left Kuroki at the altar]] for Hiiragi, a man she had met ''[[FourthDateMarriage a day before the wedding]]''. A few years later, she comes crying back to her parents, [[IHaveNoSon who want nothing to do with her]], saying that Hiiragi cheated on her.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYYA8N0cAIU Akane]] stole Hiiragi away from Yuri on the day of Hiiragi and Yuri's wedding. She did this because she's a SerialHomewrecker who gets a thrill out of stealing another woman's man away. Even after she marries Hiiragi, she decides to cheat on him with another man. When Hiiragi learns this, he asks his sister Yuzuriha where their parents' graves are so he can apologize for committing adultery, but Yuzuriha [[RejectedApology rejects his apology]], telling him he deserves to be miserable with Akane for the rest of his life.
** [[https://youtube.com/watch?v=JJQEeAYyu48 Akane]] is a [[ReallyGetsAround promiscuous woman]] who has no problem sleeping with men who are taken. She decides to steal Akamatsu away from his wife Karin under the assumption that he's rich, much to Karin's relief. The reason why Karin was so relieved was because Akamatsu is a womanizer who has a second wife along with multiple mistresses, much to Akane's horror. Akane tries to get with Tokusa under the assumption he was one of her many boyfriends, but Tokusa ignores her.
** [[https://youtube.com/watch?v=Y83oOXmE0mM Akane]] cheated on her husband Kuroki with her boss Akamatsu, planning on marrying Akamatsu after she gets divorced. After she gets divorced from her Kuroki, she discovers that not only does Akamatsu not want to marry her because he got sued for his affair, but he was also seeing another woman behind Akane's back.
** [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EghkZunzi9I Akane]] stole Akamatsu from Yuri, eventually marrying him. She [[EvilGloating constantly rubs the fact that she stole Akamatsu in Yuri's face]], even inviting Yuri to her and Akamatsu's wedding to further humiliate her. Akamatsu texts Yuri hoping to get back with her, a fact which Yuri reveals at the wedding. Naturally, Akane doesn't take it well.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MU9bxWIYEEI Akane]] cheats on her fiancé Kuroki with Hiiragi. It's then revealed that Hiiragi was still engaged to Tsutsuji while this was going on. To make matters worse for Akane, when asked who he intends to marry, he chooses Tsutsuji, which naturally angers Akane.

* In the ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'' episode "Murder Family", the episode starts with a teacher catching her husband cheating and shoots the other girl, then herself. The person her husband was cheating with then survives, marries him, and is later seen in the montage of people calling her a hero having sex with someone else.

* ''Series/GilmoreGirls:'' In season 6's "[[Recap/GilmoreGirlsS06E18 The Real Paul Anka]]," Rory attempts to use Jess to get back at Logan for sleeping his way through his sister's bridal party the previous season. She can't bring herself to do more than kiss him back, and berates herself for being "unable to cheat on [Logan] like he cheated on me." Jess doesn't appreciate being used this way, but since he is still in love with her, he tells her that she can lie to Logan and say they did something if it will make her feel better.

* Angela in ''Series/TheOfficeUS'' cheated on her ex-fiancé, and later her ex-husband, the Senator, with Dwight. On the flip-side, however, the Senator was having an affair with Oscar. Angela didn't like being on the receiving end of being cheated on once she found out.

* This is the WhamLine in the DualMeaningChorus of Music/TracyLawrence's "Alibis." The singer has been covering up his own infidelity for years with lies, only to learn his wife has also begun cheating on him, and is using all of his tricks against him.

* ''Music/JustinTimberlake'': "What Goes Around.../...Comes Around" is about the singer getting cheated on by his now ex-girlfriend, only to enjoy the {{Schadenfreude}} of having her get cheated on by her own lover, and then trying to crawl back to him for forgiveness.

* ''Music/RupertHolmes'': "Escape (The Pina Colada Song)" has an interesting variant. The narrator says he'd gotten tired of his "old lady", and that they'd fallen into a dull routine. He spots an ad in the personal columns, which he finds to be quite interesting and captivating, and writes a reply asking to meet at a bar called O'Malley's. Upon arriving there, he discovers that the person who wrote the personal ad was, in fact, his "old lady". Rather than either becoming incensed that their partner was planning to cheat on them, they realize that there's much more to each other than they had thought, and decide to spend more time together, learning about the things they hadn't known before.

* In ''Music/{{TLC}}'''s "Creep", the singer still loves her man despite knowing she's being cheated on. So she cheats on him behind his back as passive-aggressive revenge to get the affection he's not giving her.

* ''Film/{{Go}}'': Played with. Zack and Adam have a tense conversation that implies Adam is having an affair with Zack's significant other, and that Zack knows about it. Later it's revealed that A) The two of them are gay and in a secret relationship, B) They've been cheating on each other, and C) They've both been cheating with ''the same man.'' They decide to blame the whole thing on him and end up giving him a forced haircut in revenge.

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* ''Literature/TheGreatGatsby'': Tom Buchanan, who is a serial adulterer who has an affair with Myrtle Wilson, gets cheated on by his wife Daisy when she rekindles her romance with her past lover Jay Gatsby. [[spoiler:When he learns of the affair in chapter 7, [[{{Hypocrite}} Tom gets upset over Daisy cheating on him and gets into a heated argument with Gatsby over it.]]]]

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* ''Series/{{Yellowjackets}}'': Shauna and Jeff cheated behind the back of Jeff's girlfriend and Shauna's best friend Jackie in the 1990s. In the present day, Shauna and Jeff are married, but Shauna is apoplectic when she suspects Jeff is cheating on her. He isn't - but she's already started cheating on him, with Adam.

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* In ''VideoGame/{{Smite}}'', this is cited in the lore as a reason why [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Zeus]] regards [[WarGod Ares]] as TheUnfavorite of his numerous children: he thinks his long-suffering wife Hera conceived Ares with another god behind his back, and decides to [[AffairBlameTheBastard treat Ares poorly to punish Hera for it]]- [[{{Hypocrite}} despite]] this kind of behaviour being [[MoralMyopia exactly the same way]] Hera normally treats all of ''his'' illegitimate children- and, knowing Zeus, [[ReallyGetsAround he has plenty of those]]. It should be noted that this example is a case of ''SMITE'S'' developers taking [[SadlyMythtaken artistic license with the myths]]- the original Zeus didn't hate Ares because he thought he was the progeny of one of Hera's revenge affairs, he hated him because he was a sadistic, cowardly BloodKnight, the same reason everybody else hated Ares for.

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** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yrBfhuCOKk Husband Gets Side Chick Pregnant, What Wife Does Will Shock You | Dhar Mann]]'': Brandon and his wife, Jamie, are unable to have children. Jamie frequently blames herself for it and laments that she will never be a mother. Brandon then admits to getting another woman, Liza, pregnant, saying that he can't be with someone who is infertile. When Brandon and Liza's baby is born, a DNA test confirms that he isn't Brandon's child - which means all along, it was Brandon who was infertile, not Jamie. Months later, Brandon happens to run into Jamie, who has since moved on and had a child with her new partner.

-->'''Scott, (deadpan)''': "The truth is, I've been sleeping with your wife for the past six months."

* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': Jaime had a long-term affair with his [[{{Twincest}} twin sister]] Cersei and fathered her children, who she claimed were her husband's children. Jaime believed he and Cersei were soulmates only kept apart by the taboo against incest and her unhappy ArrangedMarriage. So, when he learns that Cersei had been secretly sleeping with other men while he was imprisoned during the war, he's completely devastated. [[spoiler: This betrayal is why he ignores her plea for help when she's put on trial by the Faith]].

* This is the very plot of ''Film/InTheMoodForLove''; two neighbors, Chow Mo-wan (Creator/TonyLeungChiuWai) and Su Li-zhen (Creator/MaggieCheung) find out their spouses are cheating on them, and decides to cheat back by re-enacting their spouses' affairs. Then things get out of hand when they start developing genuine feelings for each other.

* In ''Theatre/LeNozzeDiFigaro'', Count Almaviva cheats on his wife left and right but grows ''livid'' when he suspects she might be unfaithful to him herself (every time in this play, it turns out to be either OperationJealousy or a misunderstanding, but in the sequel, she does cheat on him).

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*** ''Withered Hydrangea'' has Natsuha, who cheated on her boyfriend Yuuta with a bad boy named Masaru, finding a group of delinquents beating Masaru. The reason why is because he slept with ''their'' girlfriends too.
*** ''Noblesse Oblige'' has the cheating woman, Ayaka, discovering that Baba, the guy she cheated with, is [[TwoTimingWithTheBestie two timing her with her best friend Makiko]].

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* ''Literature/TheGreatGatsby'': Tom Buchanan, who is a serial adulterer that has an affair with Myrtle Wilson, gets cheated on by his wife, Daisy, when she rekindles her romance with her past lover, Jay Gatsby. [[spoiler:When he learns of the affair in chapter 7, [[{{Hypocrite}} Tom gets upset over Daisy cheating on him and gets into a heated argument with Gatsby over it.]]]]

* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': Jaime had an long-term affair with his [[{{Twincest}} twin sister]] Cersei and fathered her children, who she claimed were her husband's children. Jaime believed he and Cersei were soulmates only kept apart by the taboo against incest and her unhappy ArrangedMarriage. So, when he learned that Cersei had been secretly sleeping with other men while he was imprisoned during the war, he's completely devastated. [[spoiler: This betrayal is why he ignores her plea for help when she's put on trial by the Faith]].
* Explored in ''Literature/{{Thinks}}'' by David Lodge. Ralph Messenger is a serial philanderer, and he and his wife Carrie have a tacit agreement that he only has other women when he is away from home, which happens frequently. However, soon after he has broken this rule and had an affair with a woman nearby, he discovers that Carrie has been having an affair with a man whom he dislikes, and is furious. He decides not to confront Carrie, because he knows she would confront him about his own affairs. This comes soon after he has explained the strategy of "co-operate or defect", in which you co-operate with somebody until they defect, then you defect. He notes that Carrie defected, knowing that he had defected.

* ''Series/BreakingBad'': When Walt takes advantage of the fact Skyler can't turn him into the police or risk losing the house to continue living in the house after she's kicked him out, Skyler takes petty revenge by starting an affair with her boss Ted. Walt is infuriated when she tells him, so he tries to get her back by starting an affair with ''his'' boss, Principal Carmen. [[SubvertedTrope It fails miserably]], because, unlike Ted and Skyler, there was never even the slightest hint of sexual tension between the two, and he is fired for trying it.

** Before the events of the series, Carole's husband Derrick cheats on her and runs off with his affair to Spain. The episode "[[Recap/TheBrittasEmpireS1E3ByeByeBaby Bye Bye Baby]]", sees him return having had a HeelRealisation, only to be given the misconception from Brittas that Carole has not only cheated on him, but has produced a ChocolateBaby behind his hack. Despite his previous cheating, he is furious at Carole, both tearing her a new one and walking out of her life for good without even giving Carole a hint as to why he's so mad at her. In fairness, the fact that Brittas also gives Derrick the belief that Carole performs MaliciousSlander doesn't help.

* ''Series/LunaAndSophie'': Sophie impulsively has sex with her coworker David while working overtime on a case, and only admits to it to her husband Robert after he fesses up to an affair of his own. He seemed to expect her to forgive the affair but moves out instead. However, eventually they make up and he moves back in.

* ''Series/{{Yellowjackets}}'': Shauna and Jeff cheated behind the back of Jeff's girlfriend and Shauna's best friend, Jackie, in the 1990s. In present day, Shauna and Jeff are married, but Shauna is apoplectic when she suspects Jeff is cheating on her. He isn't - but she's already started cheating on him, with Adam.

* Music/PinkFloyd's "Young Lust" from ''Music/TheWall'' has Pink getting his freak on with groupies as part of his SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll lifestyle, but we don't learn till about the end of the song that Pink is married, and that his wife (behind whose back he's been doing this) is seeing another man until he tries to call her and learns that a man has been answering his calls. This ends up sending Pink on a downward spiral that leads to the completion of his wall.
* ''Music/RupertHolmes'': "Escape (The Pina Colada Song)" by has an interesting variant. The narrator says he'd gotten tired of his "old lady", that they'd fallen into a dull routine. He spots an ad in the personal columns, which he finds to be quite interesting and captivating, and writes a reply asking to meet at a bar called O'Malley's. Upon arriving there, he discovers that the person who wrote the personal ad was, in fact, his "old lady". Rather than either becoming incensed that their partner was planning to cheat on them, they realize that there's much more to each other than they had thought, and decide to spend more time together, learning about the things they hadn't known before.
* At the end of the Music/StevieWonder song "Part-Time Lover", in which the singer describes the steps he and his lover need to take to stop his partner finding out, he notes some strange events that suggest his partner is taking similar precautions. Unlike most examples, he's philosophical about this, just noting "I guess two can play the game of part-time lovers".

* ''Theatre/ALittleNightMusic'': Practically the entire cast is guilty. Carl-Magnus makes almost no secret of cheating on his wife Charlotte with Desiree, but when he finds Desiree in a comprimising situation with Frederik, he is furious at the idea that she would be unfaithful to him, as is he when Charlotte kisses Frederik in an attempt to make him jealous. Frederik, meanwhile, is married to the much younger Anne, who, after learning of his affair with Desiree, ends up cheating on him with his own son, one year her senior.
* In ''Theatre/DonCarlo'', Philip is outraged to learn that his wife Elizabeth has cheated on him with his son Carlos (in fact, it's emotional adultery which both parties try to suppress, and they have barely met since Elizabeth's marriage), while he has cheated on her with Princess Eboli before. Eboli is the one who realizes the hypocrisy of the situation and confesses everything to Elizabeth (not to mention that she doesn't even love Philip either: she loves Carlos as well... [[LoveDodecahedron things are seriously messed up in that opera]]).

* ''WebAnimation/EtraChanSawIt'': Because of how many stories have her involved in affairs, this trope naturally happens a few times with Akane.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYYA8N0cAIU Akane]] stole Hiiragi away from Yuri on the day of Hiiragi and Yuri's wedding. She did this because she's a SerialHomewrecker who gets a thrill out of stealing another woman's man away. Even after she marries Hiiragi, she decides to cheat on him with another man. When Hiiragi learns this, he asks his sister Yuzuriha where their parent's graves are so he can apologize for committing adultery, but Yuzuriha [[RejectedApology rejects his apology]], telling he deserves to be miserable with Akane for the rest of his life.
** [[https://youtube.com/watch?v=JJQEeAYyu48 Akane]] is a [[ReallyGetsAround promiscuous woman]] who has no problem sleeping with men who are taken. She decides steal Akamatsu away from his wife Karin under the assumption that he's rich, much to Karin's relief. The reason why Karin was so relieved was because Akamatsu is a womanizer who has a second wife along with multiple mistresses, much to Akane's horror. Akane tries to get with Tokusa under the assumption he was one of her many boyfriends, but Tokusa ignores her.

* ''WebAnimation/TroubleBusters'': [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d75oA2L-YMc Melanie's best friend Lina]] [[TwoTimingWithTheBestie slept with her husband Alan]] and plans to divorce her current husband to marry him, under the assumption that Alan is rich. She finds out later that not only is Alan an unemployed bum who sponges off of Melanie, he's also sleeping with ''thirty'' other women.

*** Men who use their money to attract women discovering the hard way that a [[GoldDigger woman who chooses men based on their financial status]] would probably leave them the minute a wealthier man came along.

** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7SnKx_4lQg Gold Digger Dumps Broke Boyfriend, Then Regrets Her Decision | Dhar Mann]]'': Bella is frustrated at her boyfriend, John, for being poor, so she carries out an affair with her friend Estephan as he spoils her with fancy gifts. John is heartbroken when he finds out and leaves her. Bella believes that her Estephan are meant to be, but months later, she catches him cheating on her with another girl.

** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-XGoXdCW0&list=PLnBCOhf_VBTXBuJ-si9NN6YksPyMaWjTU&index=5 Gold Digger Cheats On Husband With Boss, She Lives To Regret Her Decision | Dhar Mann]]'': Leanne cheats on her husband, Mark, with her boss, Scott. Her rationale for this is that Scott is wealthier and can buy her more material objects, like shoes and purses, that she desires. Later, Leanne catches Scott being intimate with another woman, and becomes distraught.
-->'''Scott, (deadpan)''': "The truth is, I've been sleeping with your wife for the past six months."
* ''WebVideo/ViralTexts'': [[https://youtu.be/Q1dbiU2YSh0?feature=shared Naomi's mother]] was a GoldDigger who cheated on and divorced her first husband for Randy, wealthy man, after her husband got sick and lost his job. Years later, after Randy [[RichesToRags loses his money]], she decides to cheat on and abandon him for another wealthy man.
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* ''Series/BreakingBad'': When Walt takes advantage of the fact Skyler can't turn him into the police or risk losing the house to continue living in the house after she's kicked him out, Skyler takes petty revenge by starting an affair with her boss Ted. Walt is infuriated when she tells him, so he tries to get her back by starting an affair with ''his'' boss at the school, Molina. [[SubvertedTrope It fails miserably]], because, unlike Ted and Skyler, there was never even the slightest hint of sexual tension between the two, and he is laid off by Molina for trying it.

SubTrope of SexualKarma. Often overlaps with MoralMyopia. Compare OpenRelationshipFailure, which can involve similar circumstances. A SympatheticAdulterer might inflict this on their cheating partner. Overlaps with ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine if a person cheats on their partner as revenge for being cheated on or OriginalPositionFallacy when someone involved in an affair is surprised when their affair partner cheats on them.

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'''Indices'''
* {{Karma}}
* InfidelityIndex
* {{Hypocrite}}

* Music/PinkFloyd's "Young Lust" from Music/TheWall has Pink getting his freak on with groupies as part of his SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll lifestyle, but we don't learn till about the end of the song that Pink is married, and that his wife (behind whose back he's been doing this) is seeing another man until he tries to call her and learns that a man has been answering his calls. This ends up sending Pink on a downward spiral that leads to the completion of his wall.

* In ''Music/TLC'''s "Creep", the singer still loves her man despite knowing she's being cheated on. So she cheats on him behind his back as passive-aggressive revenge to get the affection he's not giving her.

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* One ''Webcomic/SomethingPositive'' strip has Davan's boss shocked that he found his mistress cheating on him with his wife's lover in his (the boss) own bed.