2. Could I have done something to prevent this?
A: You couldn’t have changed his lying, cheating ways, so please know it’s not your fault.
That said, perhaps you could have taken a few more precautionary steps. For example, did you ever ask him if he was seeing other people? Did you just assume exclusivity? Never assume! Did you make it clear that you were only interested in a monogamous relationship? If you ever had any doubts, did you demand satisfactory explanation? As Socrates said, “The unexamined life is not worth living.”
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