Sitting here hungrily awaiting just a single glimpse of somebody to hold me... somebody new, though. Somebody i -know- isn't just another, someone i can make special.

Why did they cheat on you?

You failed to offer a unique comfort.

When it was reaised that your services were offered elsewhere, perhaps even bettered, then they crawled away. The only thing causing them to stay, then, would be guilt. That's where all the apologies come into it.

He abuses her, yet she stays. Why? Because she loves him, and love is all powerful?? No. Because she's learned to be completely dependant on him and him only, as her source of comfort. He's demeaned her, or, let her demean herself, into thinking nobody could, or, would, ever offer eveything she has now. Which is probably far less in reality. It's pretty much all perception.