Nigerian actress and social critic, Doris Ogala, has opined that it is unhealthy and dangerous for people to continue forgiving and staying with an unfaithful partner.
She stated this in an interview with The Punch, while pointing out that people who are partners are serial cheats risk contracting infections that could be life thratening.
Ogala also argued that society does not understand the trauma women go through when their husbands or boyfriends cheat on them.
The thespian said she practices what she preaches and does not stay with a man if she finds out he was seeing other women while with her.
She recalled a time one of her ex-boyfriends called her and explained that her love could be choking even when she does not intend for it to be so.
The Nollywood star emphasised that when she loves someone, she gives everything to the person, but such action drives some men away.
Ogala said; “Being in a cheating relationship is unhealthy in the sense that a cheating partner can endanger one’s life by way of contracting sexually transmitted diseases. So, cheating is not really the problem, but cutting one’s life short because of a cheating partner is an issue.
Most people don’t understand the trauma women go through when their partners cheat. I can’t speak for all women though, because there are some who prefer to cheat back. That way, both parties don’t know who is going to infect the other.
Speaking for myself, I cannot stand a cheating partner, irrespective of who the person is or what he has. I am a one-man, one-woman relationship type of person. One of my exes called one day and said my love could be choking, and that’s because when I love, I would give everything to the person. But, some men don’t like that.”