We never officially set the date that we started dating until much later.

He chose the date as the night that we stayed up all talking about a little of everything and talked straight through until after 7 in the morning.

The sad part is I had sex with a friend a few nights later. We'd been talking for a while, and he was about to be shipped out...so I guess you could say that was my goodbye to him.

I never told my ex I slept with another man while we were supposedly together. I didn't consider it cheating because we set the date we got together several months later. I always thought I should have voted for a different date so I wouldn't feel as guilty, but I never did. I thought I would regret it and that I would tell him one day.

After how he treated me, I'm glad I never told him.