once a cheater always a cheater?

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Depends on their personality and why they've cheated.

I mean there's going to be a difference between someone that cheats because they desire the rewards from cheating and someone who cheats as a means to avoid fear of something and someone who cheats as a means of communication.

There's going to be a difference between someone that can honestly see their mistakes, learn, and take responsibility for them, and someone that can't or won't.

There is even a huge difference just in the brains involved in people.
You know how some people have episodic depression and others chronic, possibly lasting their entire lives?

You know how when you first date and start to "fall in love" and you're all hopped up on hormones? Some people naturally handle them better than others. Some people have heightened reactions to them just like different people have different reactions to serotonin and depressed or normal moods. Elevated levels of depression, elevated levels of happiness, elevated levels of bad decision making horniness.

So it just depends.
Some people are "once a cheater always a cheater," other people aren't. Some people will believe they aren't "once a cheater always a cheater", their actions will prove them wrong, but they'll never see it.
Other people will fear they're "once a cheater always a cheater," and cause themselves grief trying to prove themselves wrong.
Other people will fear they're "once a cheater always a cheater," cause themselves grief trying to prove themselves wrong, and end up finding someone that will facilitate helping them prove that they really are "always a cheater."
Other people will simply think "ugh. Dirty cheaters are the worst! I'd never cheat," and then find themselves cheating, possibly rationalizing everything so they never see it as such.


Sorry, heuristic cliches won't guarantee you anything in life.

People change~

Fool me once, shame on you... Fool me twice, shame on me..

true

Once bitten, twice shy

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