Cheating Archives

The Oddly Empowering Nature of Fabulous Lives of Bollywood Wives

The reality show can be cringe at times, but it is also oddly empowering in the sense that these women would not come to our screens if not sought out for who they are, rather than what they could have been.

Takshi Mehta July 13, 2016

Love and Sex

Can You Find Love in a Rebound Relationship?

A “rebound” doesn’t always mean a friend with benefits or facilitator of closure. Sometimes, they are a person you might have, under kinder circumstances, fallen hopelessly in love with.

Heartbreak Rehab June 25, 2016

Features

I Have a Happy Love Marriage, But I Can’t Stop Fearing That My Husband Will Cheat on Me

An Out Of Love survey that polled married Indians on their expectations of loyalty found out that people in love marriage are more prone to being suspicious of their partners than the ones in arranged marriages. Normally, I’d scoff at this. But today, I’m living proof.

Simran Kapoor June 4, 2016

Love and Sex

Heartbreak from Hell: When Your Boyfriend Cheats on You… with Your Best Friend

When your boyfriend cheats on you, you feel humiliated and worthless. But when a best friend cheats on you, it knocks the wind out of you. No one makes a friend thinking that they might some day jump into bed with your partner, knowing better than almost anyone else, what that betrayal would do to you.

Sonali Kokra May 8, 2016

Love and Sex

Pati, Patni, and the Woeful Woh

An extramarital upheaval in my life – and my screenplay – helped me realise that all it takes for a man to come back, is for a woman to know that she doesn’t want him anymore.

The Dire March 26, 2016

Love and Sex

Why You Should Swipe Right on Promiscuity Before Marriage

“Sowing your wild oats” is an age-old, regressive idea ascribed to young men before the “settle down” phase. I’ve never set store by it, but watching my young friends seek sex outside marriage, I wonder if there is something to the theory. If we don’t play the field enough before shaadi, will we experience FOMO?

Jackie Thakkar March 5, 2016