Khloé Kardashian and Tristan Thompson are no strangers to controversy, especially after
all the cheating and paternity scandals that she has endured for years.
But their relationship rollercoaster sparks a complicated question: why would a woman
stay with a man who cheats?
Let's find out.
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We need a quick recap of Khloé and Tristan's relationship so we can get up to speed, and
you can understand the severity of the situation.
In 2016, they began to fuel romance rumors as they were spotted vacationing together
in Mexico.
Then, for Halloween, they put their relationship in full display on social media.
You know, the "formal" way of doing it these days.
Barely just one year later, on September 2017, there were rumors that she was pregnant with
her first child.
But in 2018, just days before the arrival of the couple's daughter, the report explodes.
Tristan is allegedly cheating on Khloe with other women.
Kim Kardashian reacted to the news telling her sister that there was a video of Tristan
making out with a girl.
But you know how it is.
The arrival of their daughter put all these...
escapades in the rear view mirror, and Khloé decided to give Tristan another chance.
Precisely, for the sake of True, their daughter.
In fact, this is one of the most common reasons women stay with cheating men, because they
want the relationship to work for the sake of the kids.
But in the case of Khloé and Tristan, it just went downhill from there.
But well, May 2018 - another chance.
One month after Tristan's scandal, a source reveals that they are NOT calling it quits,
and they will try to put the pieces back together for the sake of their daughter.
Pay attention to the wording: "Khloé desperately wants things to work and wants to have a complete
family".
Yeah, the word "desperately" is enough of a red flag, and the argument of 'having a
complete family' only works under the presumption of respect.
Because otherwise, it's just a facade.
Well, we are talking about one of the Kardashians, and facades are part of their business.
And that business requires that you are as public as possible.
That's where real problems begin to surface.
Because one fan pointed out what she thought of this second chance.
"I love, adore and root for Khloé.
But I'm so disappointed she stayed with that wasteman.
Tristan.
She preaches about women knowing their self worth, and when to walk away, but when it's
time to walk the walk, she's a hypocrite.
Well, maybe that was a bit harsh at the end.
What is relevant is one critical word: self worth.
Khloé responded,
Not exactly Queen Persian, you have no knowledge of what goes on in our household or the enormous
rebuilding this takes to even coexist.
I'm proud of my strength.
I appreciate your opinion and I hope you hold that same opinion to everyone else who has
stayed in situations.
Again, she's not wrong.
We can't possibly know what goes on people's households and private...
Oh.
I need to ask, why do we have to know this?
Jesus!
but... there are worse things than imagining Pete shagging Kim.
So, ten months after welcoming their daughter, Khloé and Tristan break up amid claims that
he cheated on her, once again, with Kylie Jenner's best friend, Jordyn Woods.
At the time, it was reported that the couple would remain focused on co-parenting.
So far so good, right?
grown-up decisions.
They even went so far as to quarantine together amid the coronavirus pandemic in 2020.
Well, I guess that they got too cozy, because in January 2021, they announced they were
planning a second baby.
And in March, they had made the first steps for in vitro fertilization, for that matter.
But you just had to wait two months.
In June, they broke up again following reports that he was allegedly spotted entering a bedroom
with three women at Nessel Beezer's party.
At this point, Khloe was... apparently, fed up with him, and said that they had been working
through the cheating rumors, but he had lost all of her trust.
I want to stress the fact that by June 2021, when they still hadn't started that second
baby journey with a surrogate, which was the initial plan, Khloé said that the relationship
could not be repaired.
She was vocal about this, and I quote, "She's done and says she will not go back".
Spoiler alert!
they went back in October.
Now, nobody can judge other person's decisions, especially if we don't know, or don't have
contact with them.
But girl!
you're setting yourself up for a crushing heartbreak.
And she said it herself: "We just got back together.
He's been going to therapy a lot.
There's just been a lot of effort on his part", as she was building her dream home for her
daughter, hoping that Tristan could live with them.
Because this is not a woman that depends on a man or... on any man!
She's got a net worth of 60 million.
And guess what?
it gets worse.
They sealed the deal of a second baby via surrogate in November 2021.
But one moth later, he was sued by a woman claiming he fathered her child.
She says they had been together while celebrating his thirtieth birthday, back in March.
Yes, the time when they published all those pictures as a happy, "complete" family.
After the paternity tests confirmed everything, he went on a public apology.
"You don't deserve the heartache and humiliation I have caused you.
You don't deserve the way I have treated you over the years.
my actions certainly have not lined up with the way I view you."
You know, the usual stuff.
Her reaction was revealed in the season finale of The Kardashians, saying that she didn't
know about anything before news broke worldwide in December.
"A courtesy would be not doing it.
But fine, if you do it, you're not even going to give me a heads up before the rest of the
world?
it's humiliating"
We circle back to our original question.
Why a woman stays with a cheater?
especially when she's got money, power, a circle of... well, more or less trust, and
she doesn't need him!
Well, I already mentioned that one of the reasons is for the children.
In Khloe's case, she claims that she wanted her daughter to have her father close.
And the idea of the second baby, even if their relationship was beyond reparations at that
point, is to give her a sibling from the same father.
Maybe she wanted to make Father's day easier?
who knows?
But even if you're staying with the cheater for the kids, it's imperative that the relationship
is rebuilt with respect.
Sadly, trust will never be the same, and a great analogy is a one thousand pieces puzzle
that is missing one of them.
You can build the puzzle as many times as you want, but it will never be the same.
Sadly, the situation of many women is way more complicated than this, especially when
we take into account the sunk cost fallacy.
This error in judgement happens when you feel like you have invested so much in something,
that you have no other option but to keep investing time and energy into it.
Sort of watching Thunder Force more than halfway through and deciding to stay just to see if
it will be that bad until the end.
So, a woman could feel like she's been way too emotionally invested in her partner, and
the relationship has been a priority for her.
So she thinks, am I going to throw this all away? and then, in the name of something that
already happened, and even hurt her feelings and her self worth, she's willing to keep
giving chances.
She can't imagine building a new life without him.
And it's much more difficult when she loves his family, which is surprisingly common.
She fears of letting them down.
Sometimes that investment is A REAL investment, because they could be business partners, which
complicates things to levels not seen outside Twin Peaks' plot.
But so far, every single hurdle is outside you.
Yes, kids are going to be paramount, but a woman should never sacrifice her self worth
and much less the respect that she has earned, because I'm sure that no woman would like
her children to make such a decision.
As usual, every case is different, and this is almost never a matter of black and white,
or "I'm good, you're bad".
It always helps to go to a specialist and be clear about how you plan to rebuild your
relationship.
And if there are gonna be second chances, the one receiving them must live up to them.
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