Cheater Gets Cheated On

"I guess two can play the game of part-time lovers
You and me: part-time lovers
But she and he: part-time lovers"

— Stevie Wonder, "Part Time Lovers"

If they'll cheat with you, they'll cheat on you.

When it comes to relationships, almost no one likes being cheated on. Even people who cheat themselves can't take being cheated on. Whether the cheating is a casual fling or a lover-stealer, people who have affairs usually won't take it well when they experience being cheated on themselves.

The reasons for this can vary; people who believe in some kind of Double Standards in regards to cheating believe that it's okay for some groups of people (always a group the person holding the Double Standard belongs to) to cheat but not others. Cheaters with a high opinion of themselves might see themselves as too good to be cheated on because they are beautiful, rich, an alpha male, etc. so the idea that someone would cheat on them hurts their pride. Short-sighted people might fail to take into account that someone who was unfaithful to their previous partner would be unfaithful to them as well. A cheater who assumed that their affair partner was genuinely in love with them might be surprised to learn that someone who was willing to engage in a relationship based on deception would lie about being in love with them.

If called out on their hypocrisy, the cheaters will either try to explain why it's okay for them to cheat but why their partner can't or act flabbergasted that their cheating partner would be unfaithful to them as well. Sometimes, when the cheater's original partner learns that they had an affair, the partner in question would have their own affair, mainly to spite said cheater, realizing that the cheater might not love them and/or think the cheater won't care if they cheat too.

Sub-Trope of Sexual Karma. Often overlaps with Moral Myopia. Compare Open Relationship Failure, which can involve similar circumstances and No Honor Among Thieves, which involves criminals rather than adulterers. A Sympathetic Adulterer might inflict this on their cheating partner. Overlaps with A Taste of Their Own Medicine if a person cheats on their partner as revenge for being cheated on or Original Position Fallacy when someone involved in an affair is surprised when their affair partner cheats on them. See also Good Adultery, Bad Adultery, for when cheating is given different moral judgments depending on circumstances. A Fair-Weather Ex might decide to get with their original partner if their cheating partner pulls this trope on them.

Examples

Comic Books

• Invincible: Rex Splode's relationship with Atom Eve is ruined when the latter walks in on the former in the middle of sex with Dupli-Kate. Later, he would be in the same situation when he walks in on Dupli-Kate in the middle of sex with The Immortal.

Fan Works

• Synépeies - A Collection Of NTR Consequences:
  • Some chapters deconstruct the relationship between the cheating women and the antagonist of a netorare story by having the cheating women learn the hard way that a guy who would steal another man's girlfriend/wife from him would likely have no qualms about cheating on his own girlfriend/wife as well.
    • 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 is that he slept with their girlfriends too.
    • Noblesse Oblige has the cheating woman, Ayaka, discovering that Baba, the guy she cheated with, is two-timing her with her best friend Makiko.
  • A Lesson in Power has a variation where the cheater is rejected; Su-Min cheated on and left her "beta male" boyfriend Ji-Ho for his "alpha male" bully, Min-Jung. Min-Jung gets beaten by a stranger he tried to pick a fight with, and said stranger decides to beat her as well. In order to save her own skin, Su-Min offers to become the stranger's woman. The stranger rejects her and gives her a beatdown.

Films — Live-Action

• 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.
• The plot of In the Mood for Love centers around this idea. The leads are two neighbors who find out their respective spouses are having an affair with one another. The leads form a bond over this shared betrayal. They teeter around the edge of the question Will They or Won't They? have their own affair. The closest they get is a Bait-and-Switch scene where it looks like they're beginning one — but actually they're LARPing as their spouses, trying to imagine how that affair began. They start developing feelings for each other, but ultimately they don't get together. It could be considered either Subverted or Zigzagging, as what they do share has sometimes been termed an "emotional affair" or "unconsummated affair." The leads don't conceptualize it as such, though.
  Chan: We won't be like them.
• Till Death: Emma's abusive husband Mark constructs a sadistic revenge plot after learning that she had an affair with his employee Tom. However, later it's revealed that Mark would often cheat on Emma when she complains about repeatedly having to wash lipstick and glitter out of his shirts.
• Unfaithful: In the middle of her torrid affair with Paul, Connie happens to be at a library one day and catches him with another woman on his arm, which she flies into a snarling fury at with not a thought on how she's been doing the same to her own husband Edward. Near the end of the movie, the police investigation into Edward's Accidental Murder of Paul also reveals Paul was a married man all along, with his wife having been looking for him for a long time.
• This occurs in the 1925 German silent film Variety. In Hamburg, a trapeze artist leaves his wife for a younger woman. He and his mistress then move to Berlin, where they form a trapeze act with a second man. The mistress then starts having an affair with said second man, causing the original man to become angry and jealous. Incidentally, when the film came to America in 1926, it was bowdlerized to remove this trope, with the first reel cut so that the main character's mistress appears to be his wife.
• A Year and Change: One of the first scenes of Owen we get is him having sex with another woman despite being in a relationship with Pam. The morning after the party, he finds Pam in bed with Pete.

Literature

• The Great Gatsby: Tom Buchanan, 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. When he learns of the affair in chapter 7, Tom gets upset over Daisy cheating on him and gets into a heated argument with Gatsby over it.
• How NOT to Write a Novel encourages this if you're going to have the protagonist cheat on their significant other with someone else. If a writer doesn't do this, they run the risk of the significant other looking Unintentionally Sympathetic. The writer has to make sure the significant other is clearly worse than the protagonist, and having them cheat first is a good way to establish how awful they are.
• Parker Pyne: Downplayed in an early story where a wife discovers her husband is starting to spend money on his secretary, taking her to restaurants, dancing, etc. though it hasn't escalated to actual sexual cheating. She consults Parker Pyne who concocts an Operation: Jealousy to restore the marriage, more out of a pragmatic measure than any actual loss of love (when she sees the two of them together, she feels pity for how ridiculous he looks and how bored the secretary looks).
• Explored in 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 cooperate with somebody until they defect, then you defect. He notes that Carrie defected, knowing that he had defected.
• The Other Boleyn Girl has Anne Boleyn having an emotional affair with Henry VIII for several years while he works to divorce his first wife, Katherine of Aragon; Anne deliberately makes sure the affair doesn't get physical until she's absolutely certain that Henry will marry her. Once Anne is queen and pregnant with Henry's child, she's in for a nasty shock; she made the age-old error of believing the man who'd kept several mistresses throughout his first marriage would naturally remain faithful during his second one, and is enraged when Henry begins to get up to his old tricks with the ladies of her chamber. Even worse, as Henry starts to tire of Anne when she first gives birth to a daughter and then keeps miscarrying, he starts carrying on another emotional affair with Jane Seymour who is clearly being positioned to usurp Anne.

Live-Action TV

• 1000 Ways to Die: "Kill Bill and Billie" is about a married couple who both suspect that their partner is cheating on the other. Both of them are correct in their assumption, as the man is seeing prostitutes, and the wife is a prostitute. They discover each other's infidelity when the prostitute that the husband hires turns out to be his own wife. Both of them are then shot dead by a hitman the man had sent to kill his wife.
• Breaking Bad: 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 Beneke. Walt is infuriated when she tells him, so he tries to get her back by starting an affair with his boss, Principal Carmen. 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.
• The Brittas Empire: Downplayed in both instances as one of the two parties is merely Mistaken for Cheating:
  • Before the events of the series, Carole's husband Derrick cheats on her and runs off with his affair to Spain. The episode "Bye Bye Baby", sees him return having had a Heel Realisation, only to be given the misconception from Brittas that Carole has not only cheated on him but has produced a Chocolate Baby behind his back. 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 Malicious Slander doesn't help.
  • During the events of the series, Helen cheats regularly on Brittas. However, "Surviving Christmas" has her mistakenly believe that Brittas is cheating on her with Carole. She doesn't take it well, spending the episode trying to murder Carole and only calming down when Brittas sets the record straight.
• Desperate Housewives:
  • Karl Mayer is a cheater to the extreme. He cheats on Susan with Edie Britt, and then goes back to Susan and cheats on Edie with her. In addition, Carlos Solis cheats on Edie with Gaby (who herself is cheating on Victor Lang) in season 4.
  • In season 1, Bree Van de Kamp starts a relationship with George Williams while still married to Rex, to get back at for Rex cheating on her with Maisy Gibbons (to indulge in his taste for BDSM). Their relationship is on the rocks, but as Bree and Rex are (in theory...) devoutly religious, they still regard each other as husband and wife.
  • Gaby Solis has an affair with John Rowland, their gardener. In season 2, following his release from prison, Carlos starts cheating on her with their maid-turned-surrogate, Xiao-Mei.
  • Lynette Scavo has an emotional affair with Rick Coletti in season 3. In season 7, it's revealed that her husband Tom cheated on her with her best friend, Renee.
• Gilmore Girls: In season 6's "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.
• Luna + Sophie: 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 seems to expect her to forgive the affair but moves out instead. However, eventually they make up and he moves back in.
• Mad Men: Don Draper cheats on his wife Betty with several women, and when she finally finds out, she's ready to cut him out for good, but unfortunately, is pregnant with their third child and not ready to go it alone. Knowing she has to go back to Don, she seduces a random man in a bar, seemingly to understand why Don does what he does. Subverted in the following season when Betty has an emotional affair with Henry and knows he's the man she wants to marry, but intentionally stops it from becoming physical lest it damage her case for divorce from Don, who is still chronically unfaithful.
• Angela in The Office (US) cheated on her ex-fiancé, Andy, 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.
• The Sopranos: Tony Soprano has a revolving door of goomahs that he secretly visits on the side. Whether or not Carmela knows is left vague, but it seems she's functioning on Ignorance Is Bliss. This is until late in season 4, when one of Tony's ex-goomahs spitefully calls Carmela to tell her Tony had sex with her and her sister, who Carmela knows. In the midst of the following arguments, Carmela admits to an emotional affair with one of Tony's soldiers, Furio Giunta. Tony is enraged, but he still doesn't stop having affairs after they patch things up (although he promises Carmela she'll never hear from his mistresses again).
• 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.
• In Season 1 of You (2018), Joe cheats on Karen with Beck (under the belief that he and Beck are "meant" to be together and therefore it's justifiable). He learns that Beck had cheated on him with Dr Nicky, though their affair was mired in Questionable Consent.

Music

• Brooks & Dunn's "She's Not the Cheatin' Kind," in which a woman who finds out she's being cheating on by her boyfriend—repeatedly, the song implies—decides to head to the nearest bar, "dressed to kill/in a dress he bought her," get drunk, and cheat on him back.
• Justin Timberlake: "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.
• Pink Floyd's "Young Lust" from The Wall has Pink getting his freak on with groupies as part of his Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll 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.
• This is the Wham Line in the Dual-Meaning Chorus of Tracy Lawrence's "Alibis." The singer has been covering his own infidelity for years with "my alibis/and lying eyes/and all the best lines" and learns his wife is now doing the same.
• Rupert Holmes: "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.
• At the end of the Stevie Wonder song "Part-Time Lover", in which the singer describes the steps he and his lover need to take to stop his partner from 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".
• In 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.
• Happened in the final verse to "The Cheater", the lone hit for Bob Kuban and the In-Men, which peaked at #15 in the spring of 1966.
• In the spoken section of the "Weird Al" Yankovic parody of Barenaked Ladies' "One Week", "Jerry Springer", a male guest reveals that he's slept with all of his girl's sisters, her dog, and his (male) best friend. In-between his admissions, she reveals that she's slept with said best friend and the male guest's pet goat.

Theatre

• A Little Night Music: 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 compromising 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 Don Carlo, Philip is outraged to learn that his wife Elizabeth has cheated on him with his son Carlos (in fact, it's emotional adultery that 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... things are seriously messed up in that opera).
• In Le Nozze Di Figaro, 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 Operation: Jealousy or a misunderstanding, but in the sequel, she does cheat on him).

Video Games

• Being A ΔΙΚ:
  • Sage only starts her Friends with Benefits relationship with the MC after she confirms that her boyfriend Chad has been cheating on her.
  • Jade and Stephen's marriage has been functionally over for a while, and Jade often learns of him cheating on her (with students, no less); Episode 3's opening shows the two fighting after he has been caught again. Jade subsequently starts blatantly hitting on Tremolo.
  • Heather and Tommy, related to Open Relationship Failure. While the two are in an open relationship, the terms of their relationship indicate that if one of them wants to sleep with someone else, the other must be informed and have a veto. However, Tommy routinely and nonchalantly sleeps with other girls without even informing Heather (in early Season 2, he is "plus three", having slept with three girls without informing her), which hurts her deeply. This comes to a head in Episode 9, where she sees him take Christine to his room to go "plus four" and, drunk and agitated, asks Tremolo to have sex with her (which he may accept or refuse) and subsequently has sex with Nick after she confides in him and learns of his longtime unrequited crush on her. Notably, Heather feels extremely guilty afterwards, and tells Tommy in Episode 10's ending.
• Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War: This forms a major part of the game's backstory. Duke Victor of Velthomer was a serial cheater and worse. After he raped his wife's, Lady Cigyun, favorite maid in a drunken stupor and sent the maid away after finding out she was pregnant, Cigyun was so distraught that she ended up having an affair with Prince Kurth of Granvale. When Victor found out about this, he flipped his shit and killed himself after writing a scathing suicide note full of insults toward Cigyun and Kurth. The whole fiasco was so traumatizing to Cigyun that she disappeared back to her hometown and was never seen again, leaving her and Victor's son with a massive Oedipus Complex. Cigyun died giving birth to the daughter she conceived from her affair with Kurth. This was a problem because Cigyun's line of descent carried minor Loptous blood, so they were forbidden from having more than one child in each generation in order to prevent any scenario where a child with major Loptous blood could be born. Since Cigyun's two children were of the opposite sex, her affair created the exact scenario her ancestors wanted to prevent with their one child rule, and the Loptous Cult was able to manipulate things so that Arvis and Deidre, not knowing their true relationship, would marry each other so that their shared minor Loptous blood would combine into a child with major Loptous blood, their son Julius.
• In Smite, this is cited in the lore as a reason why Zeus regards Ares as The Unfavorite of his numerous children: he thinks his long-suffering wife Hera conceived Ares with another god behind his back, and decides to treat Ares poorly to punish Hera for it — despite this kind of behaviour being exactly the same way Hera normally treats all of his illegitimate children — and, knowing Zeus, he has plenty of those. It should be noted that this example is a case of SMITE'S developers taking 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 Blood Knight, the same reason everybody else hated Ares.

Web Animation

• AoHaru Manga Library: Keiichi's girlfriend of two years dumped him for a more handsome guy. The very next day, she wants to get back with Keiichi because the handsome guy was a playboy who messed with other girls.
• Etra chan saw it!:
  • Because of how many stories have her involved in affairs, this trope naturally happens a few times with Akane.
    • Akane left Kuroki at the altar for Hiiragi, a man she had met a day before the wedding. A few years later, she comes crying back to her parents, who want nothing to do with her, saying that Hiiragi cheated on her.
    • Akane stole Hiiragi away from Yuri on the day of Hiiragi and Yuri's wedding. She did this because she's a Serial Homewrecker 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 rejects his apology, telling him he deserves to be miserable with Akane for the rest of his life.
    • Akane is a 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.
    • Hiiragi and Akane cheated on their respective spouses with each other and had a baby. When Hiiragi's father suggests that the baby might be her ex-husband Kuroki's, they decide to get a DNA test to see who's the father. However, neither Kuroki nor Hiiragi is the father, with the real father being a guy Akane met at a club. Hiiragi has the audacity to get mad at Akane for cheating on him.
    • 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.
    • Akane stole Akamatsu from Yuri, eventually marrying him. She 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.
    • 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.
  • Azami is a married woman who's having an affair with Hiiragi, who's also sleeping with Yuzuriha and Akane. Azami isn't happy when she finds out that Hiiragi is two-timing her.
• Monirobo: Ryuta cheated on his wife Miyu with his ex-girlfriend Rena, who is pregnant and claims the baby is Ryuta's. Miyu is able to figure out that the baby isn't Ryuta's because of the dates. Turns out that Rena slept with several other guys and doesn't know who the father is, and claimed that Ryuta is the father because he's rich.
• Refreshing Stories:
  • Hiroshi's wife Kurumi cheated on him with her dance instructor Atsushi and assumed that he had an affair with her because he was genuinely in love with her. She later finds out from Hiroshi that Atsushi is a manipulative playboy who seduces women to get money out of them and that he saw Kurumi as just another ATM.
  • Hiroshi's wife Terumi and her friend Misaki combine this trope with Really Gets Around and Serial Homewrecker; they are best friends who enjoy sleeping around with different men, some of who are married. During Hiroshi's friend Yodobashi's wedding, both of them plan to sleep with Yodobashi along with his rich friends. During Hiroshi's wedding speech, Hiroshi makes several comments that make Terumi believe that Misaki snitched on her, which causes her to reveal both her infidelity along with Misaki's. Terumi's lovers, some of who are married, aren't happy to learn that other guys had been with her.
• Revenge Films:
  • Carl cheated on and left his fiance to be with her coworker, Abby, going so far as to give Abby the ring he had given his girlfriend. Carl and Abby later catch an STD because Abby had slept with another man behind Carl's back.
  • Rose combines this trope with Really Gets Around and A Family Affair, as she not only slept with her boyfriend's brother, a married man, but also his father as well. To make matters worse, Rose eventually ends up pregnant, and because the men she slept with have similar appearances and the same blood type, the only way to discover the father's identity is a DNA test, which the men all refuse as they don't want to take responsibility.
• SparkTales: In "Drunk Groom's Swap Joke Clears Wedding Hall!" After Lisa cancels her wedding in response to Wendell's affair with Selma, she still gloats about the deed and blames Lisa for it. However, Noah reveals that the would-be groom has had a second affair with a junior at his company. When Selma chews him out for it, Wendell tries to justify it by saying that's how a man is, but his parents reprimand him for such a sexist excuse.
• Trouble Busters: Melanie's best friend Lina 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, but he's also sleeping with thirty other women.

Webcomics

• One Something*Positive strip has Davan's boss shocked that he found his mistress cheating on him with his wife's lover in his (the boss's) own bed. In a later strip, he mentions he found a new mistress and his wife found a new lover.

Web Videos

• Apple Texts:
  • Cheating antagonists almost always become shocked and enraged when they discover that their affair partner is sleeping with people behind their back, not understanding that someone who is willing to have an affair probably wouldn't be faithful to them either. Some common variations include:
    • Men who use their money to attract women discover the hard way that a woman who chooses men based on their financial status would probably leave them the minute a wealthier man came along.
    • Beautiful/young women not understanding that a man who would leave his current wife/girlfriend for a prettier/younger woman would do the same thing to them when they get old or when an even prettier woman comes along or that their beauty/youth isn't enough to keep an unfaithful man from cheating.
    • Mistresses discovering that the man they're cheating with has other mistresses besides them or is willing to cheat on them as well.
    • Cheaters who claim their affair partner is their "true love" finding out that their cheating partner only saw them as a fling.
    • Cheating husbands finding out that their pregnant mistresses are carrying another man's baby.
    • Homewreckers who steal other people's lovers getting their stolen lover taken from them.
  • (From the Air Texts channel)"My friend invited to her wedding with my ex but no one's laughing when they meet my husband": Emma, who seduced Ryder away from her friend Mika, is not happy to learn on her wedding day that Ryder was also in a relationship with one of his co-workers, acting hypocritical about it.
  Emma: I can cheat all I want, and steal as many guys as I want! But if someone else is going to do that to me? Oh! They are going to pay!
• Frequent in Dhar Mann's videos:
  • 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 a rich man, Estephan, who spoils her with fancy gifts. John is heartbroken when she reveals this while rejecting his marriage proposal. Bella believes that her and Estephan are meant to be, but months later, she catches him cheating on her with another girl.
  • Husband Abandons Overweight Wife, Then Lives to Regret The Decision He Made | Dhar Mann: Jesse abandons his wife, Vanessa, for being overweight, and cheats on her with one of his clients at his gym job. When Jesse catches his new girl being intimate with another man, he spirals into depression and starts binge eating, ironically becoming obese himself.
  • 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. Two years later, Brandon happens to run into Jamie, who has since moved on and is pregnant by her new partner.
  • Gold Digger Cheats On Husband With Boss, She Lives To Regret Her Decision | Dhar Mann: Leanne cheats on her husband, Mark, with his boss, Scott. Her rationale for this when he finds out 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.
• Viral Texts: Naomi's mother was a Gold Digger who cheated on and divorced her first husband for Randy, a wealthy man, after her husband got sick and lost his job. Years later, after Randy loses his money, she decides to cheat on and abandon him for another wealthy man.

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