‘SARAH’ is a simple young woman who is totally smitten with a young man she met via Blackberry Messenger, and after a year, the relationship blossomed quite beautifully.

Both members of this remarkable couple are very sentimental, and I must say in love with each other, as the relationship garners momentum. One day, as everything was going so well, Sarah, out of curiosity, happened to wander through David’s Blackberry phone. She then had quite a rude awakening. The conversations and text messages she read almost crippled her sanity, and she was very angry, having considered herself the only woman in David’s life.

Sarah was livid. She re-read all Chats and Text Messages, and even looked at the photos in David’s phone, hoping it was just a bad dream. Then the realisation hit her squarely on the head that David, the love of her life, was cheating with his ex-girlfriend, the one he claimed he left after he had met Sarah.

The thought of David having another woman in his arms almost drove Sarah crazy, but she somehow managed to contain herself and confront the unsuspecting David.

The quarrel was fierce after David tried to convince Sarah that it was ‘just talk’, that there was nothing intimate happening; but Sarah was crushed, she was heart-broken.

The year-long relationship that David and Sarah shared was in limbo, but they both loved each other despite the fact she felt cheated, and she was not so willing to give him up, so they tried to reconcile.

David was barred from having anything to do with his ex-girlfriend. It pained him, but Sarah wanted him to be happy, and she decided to end their relationship. But it was a decision which David did not accept.

Cheating refers to an immoral way of achieving a goal. It is generally used for the breaking of rules to gain unfair advantage in a competitive situation. Cheating is the getting of reward for ability by dishonest means. This broad definition will necessarily include acts of bribery, cronyism, sleaze, nepotism, and any situation in which individuals are given preference using inappropriate criteria.

The rules infringed may be explicit, or they may be from an unwritten code of conduct based on morality, ethics or custom, making the identification of cheating a subjective process. Cheating can refer specifically to marital infidelity. Someone who is known for cheating is referred to as a cheat in British English, and a cheater in American English. A “cheat” does not have to cheat all the time, but once faced with a challenge that they do actually want to win, they will go back to their cheating strategies.