Cheating while Manic

Confess! Have you ever cheated on your significant other while manic? Did he or she ever find out? What was the outcome?

Looking for some good stories, but take care not to provide too much information...

The fact that I chose not to say much right now says enough lol. Yea I've made a few mistakes

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Yes. Mania seems to fuel impulsive decisions.

Married 29 years years and have never cheated on my husband -- not even tempted.

Yes, I cheated a few times while hypomanic and then after a divorce I had sex without protection. Very stupid--I'm lucky I didn't get any sexually transmitted diseases. I think I got so sick of my behavior I didn't trust myself and just stopped having any kind of connection with men. As a result I'm very lonely now. No one knew what I was doing.

I can think of one time before I was diagnosed as type 1 mighta been a bit hypo at the time, but I think the more likely cause of the cheating was due to drug and alcohol abuse... oh and she found out. ended the 4 year relationship.

No. I would never cheat on my husband. I've had encounters with women, while not in any episode, but my husband is cool with that. Ha! Sorry if this is TMI.

The worst "cheating" I did was when I knew I was going to break up with a boyfriend, I had phone sex with a friend. I was quite promiscuous in my 20's, but never cheated on anybody per se. I had plenty of casual sex relationships. I was probably hypomanic a lot, but I have no regrets, really. Now that I'm married, I feel like all of those flings were meaningless compared to what I have now. I would NEVER cheat on my husband. <3

I wouldn't cheat if I were paid to do it. I watched my mom(also bipolar) cheat on my dad and us for YEARS. I know how it made me feel and watched how it damaged my dad and siblings. To me there's never any excuse for it. I told my husband when we got married "IF I want to cheat on you you'll know because I'll ask for a divorce." It's easy to leave so why cheat?

I'm very sexual when hypo and manic.
Like very.

I just got out of a relationship that ended really badly but I really cared (I think maybe loved) the guy so much that I had anxiety about getting manic and cheating on him.

One day I ran to the bathroom and met up with a guy and fooled around and I felt at the time I didn't care. I was actually thinking of him when I was with the guy. Later that day I felt really bad and cried my self to sleep wanting to die.

Ironically the first movie we watched together was "I Smile Back". It was a movie about a bipolar women (played by Sarah Silverman) who sleeps around when manic. My bf though that I would act like that and I told my self that I never would and I ended up doing it.

It was only one time but it made me very weary and now as much as I want to be in a relationship I know that I can't because of my bipolar. I feel like no matter what, I'll end up hurting someone I fall in love with.



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No ... I never cheated on my (ex) husband ... he found himself a mistress though *snorts*

I've never cheated. Am very loyal. If I wanted to cheat I'd get a divorce. Mania is no excuse.

I cheated on everyone I dated until my husband. I think some of it was my bipolar, especially the one night stands, but some of it was just stupidity and instability. I ran around with a girl I was quite interested in when I was in a brand new relationship with my husband (like in the first month). I stayed at her house a couple of nights but we never got further than making out as she told me I needed to choose (she knew I was also dating a man). It was a hard decision as I kind of found it as a cross road: do I want to be with a woman or a man the rest of my life? I told my husband about it 6 months after and he was pretty upset that I had waited so long to tell him but he did forgive me. That was 12 years ago and I haven't cheated on him since, certainly not while I've been married. I fear when I am manic I will leave him for a woman but in reality, I think that it will never happen.