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Ask Yourself This Question Before Confessing to Cheating, Therapist Says

Or don’t cheat in the first place, either way.

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Honesty is the best policy — except, apparently, when it’s the worst one.

A TikTok creator going by @FashionablyDivorced recently made the case that telling your partner you cheated is an act of selfishness disguised as integrity. “By letting them know, you’re making them carry the burden of what you’ve done,” she said in the video. “It has the potential to completely destroy their psyche.” The comment section split roughly in half. 

Relationship therapist Dr. Madeleine Roantree, speaking to Metro, offers a more measured way into the dilemma: before deciding whether to confess, ask yourself one question. Is this my information to share, or theirs to have?

It sounds like a cop-out, but the logic that follows is harder to dismiss than it first appears. Roantree explains that the case for staying silent........

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