I have only cheated once and I was hammered one night and just made a mistake. 

My gf at the time and I had a fight that night and I was pissed at her and thought we might break up. I went out without her to this house party in Glover Park DC and this girl was hitting on me like crazy and I told her I was in a relationship. We were having drinks at her place outside on the patio and she kept flashing me her skirt/panties every few minutes. The more I denied her, the more she seemed to want it. Then she said she would be right back and she went upstairs and took off her panties and came back and started flashing me raw. It was too much for me and I had to go to her room and give it to her. 

I told my gf at the time at a bar that I cheated on her and she threw a full beer bottle at my head going down the stairs and almost hit someone else with it and it shattered in the bar. She was really pissed, but we stayed together until I broke up with her a few months later.

We are still on good terms. 

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

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why did u break up with her 

She had anger management issues. She hit me with her purse in anger once and I said if you do that again, we're done. She got violent again for the 2nd time and I told her that was it. I drove her home and she wouldn't get out of the car. She tried to say we weren't done, but that was it. She was in fixed income, we met in CFA class in DC. She was pretty cute, but I was also moving to NYC at the time and didn't want to be in a relationship or long distance relationship. 

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

How did she flash you every few mins though? Were you sitting with she was standing.. in which case you could have reposition yourself to avoid it. Just sayin’ mate, bet you wouldn’t have done it differently though :)

 

We were both sitting side by side and she kept moving around and bringing her knees way up and blatantly flashing me and giggling.

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

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Why did you tell your GF? What was to be gained from that at all? ESP if you knew she had anger issues.

I have a conscience. If I am going to be in a relationship, it has to be truthful and transparent. I made a mistake and had to come to terms with it.

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No. But I did do an elaborate prank with my brother a few years back where I changed his # in my phone to Kelsey or some shit and we dirty texted all day. I then had arranged for him to start blowing up my phone at a set time when I'd have my phone on the table and would be with my then-gf-now-wife. That evening, we're together and phone starts blowing up as planned. I do a "bad job" trying to hide it and fake trying to play keepaway for like 15 min. Then I "let" her grab it out of my hand and she sees the texts and freaks out. I let it play out until she tried throwing my monitor out the window. She's still a little mad about that one.

heister: Look at all these wannabe richies hating on an expensive salad. https://arthuxtable.com/
 

One time a few years ago there was an executive of a rival company (I believe she was serving on the board of Standard Oil). We met at a speakeasy in Louisiana when I was on a business trip (pitching an investment for our new power plant) and she started to 'size me up', as the kids say these days. She even offered to let me light her cigarette. Things escalated until she even removed her white gloves and allowed me to kiss her hand. At that point I had to put my foot down and tell her that I was getting too distracted from the upcoming meeting I had with potential investors. So to your answer your question, no, I've never cheated on my wife (going on 102 years strong). Although sometimes it gets lonely in the office so I have Smithers give me a foot massage after bringing me my afternoon tea.

 
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If I cheated on my wife I would feel so bad I would probably kill myself. I would prefer to say “hey look, I want to have sex with someone else more than I want to stay married to you.” And do it that way. I don’t think that will ever happen but I couldn’t be married, fuck someone else, then look at myself in a mirror the next morning.

This shouldn’t but probably does depend on your wife. I have a nice southern bell who was a virgin when I met her and has only ever had sex with me.

 

I went to some semi fucked up lengths to verify she was a virgin.

I stole her phone while she was sleeping and texted her ex and said "glad we never had sex." He responded saying something like "yeah me too hope everything is going well." She was so pissed when she woke up but I confirmed she wasn't lying :)

Hoes be lyin so you always gotta check lol

 
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Yeah, I think I cheated in every relationship I've been in. I just think it's unnatural to only have one partner, and with time if it's the same partner all the time, I stop being excited and the sex life and the relationship suffer. So, I meet with other girls to spicy it up and keep the sex life exciting. And as ridiculous as it sounds, it actually helps to have stronger relationships because if my girl is not the only girl, I don't get bored of her as much.

When I was younger, I usually hid it. I would rename girls in my phone, delete messages after receiving and replying, never take photos together. But I still remember many years ago how I was walking with one girl and we met my other girl hanging out with her friends :)

Lately, I haven't been hiding it. And I usually just let it happen - if the girl wants to find out, she can find out and break up with me if she wants to, I'm fine with that. Last relationship my girl found a photo in my phone of me having sex with another girl, and broke up with me, which was painful cause we dated for like 2 years, but I had like 20 other girls during that time, so it's fine.

After that last relationship, I started seriously considering being upfront with girls. There are many girls who are fine with open relationships. Of course, it's not ideal letting your girl fuck around, but maybe it's fair.

So, I'm in a serious relationship with a girl now. We've been dating for almost 2 years. And I actually had a talk with her about open relationship, cause she knows how sex is very important for me, and we've been very open with each other. And she actually said that she's fine if I hook up with other girls, and she won't have other guys cause she needs deep emotional connection to enjoy sex and she can only have it with me. So, she may be the one.

 

most probably 4 or 5:

4. be happy and lonely old man and live in South East Asia and keep plowing local girls with Viagra pills

5. be happy and find somebody old and lonely and be with them. there are a lot of lonely older women (either divorced or the husband died) who are looking for a companion. so if I'm old and done with sex I can just find somebody around my age or slightly younger and share the rest of my life with them.

to respond to your options:

1-2. I don't see me being unhappy because memories of my adventures will heat up my heart

3. I don't want any kids ever. it's a huge waste of very limited time, as well as a waste of money and energy.

 

If this isnt a troll, the stupidity in this gives me a migraine. It may be true that monogamy is unnatural, although almost everything we are doing right now as a species is considered unnatural, so to me this is a bad cop out, especially your later comment of not wanting your girl to sleep around with others, just you. How you were never upfront to anyone about your beliefs on the subject and just continually cheated on everyone (hid early on but dont now) is ridiculous. How about owning your beliefs and being upfront with girls, really not that hard. You want to sleep around outside of your relationship without communicating that (cheating), how about you 1. stay single and sleep with whoever or 2. communicate this upfront to your partner about an open relationship and go ahead. Be a fucking adult for fucks sake, there are plenty of people who arent monogamous that have fulfilling relationships, no excuse to consistently cheat. And this attitude of "i mind being an asshole as long as im happy" is such a bullshit façade, especially in this case since that doesnt even apply to this situation. You can sleep around and have a bunch of casual sex while being single or outside your relationship if you are upfront about your beliefs/open relationship if you do meet that person. There is zero reason to be an asshole and consistently cheat, unless you are sad, insecure, and too scared to be upfront with people. I hope your outlook changes or you will live a very sad and unfulfilled life.

 

my beliefs are very controversial and if I let girls know about them before sex, most of them won't have sex with me.

there are not many girls who are interested in just sex or open relationships. so, not to limit myself I had to lie when I was young and poor. but now I am actually more open cause I can attract enough girls even without lying.

 
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First girlfriend: just got nudes snap, almost broke up. Was very young and didn’t really think it was cheating but she was devastated regardless. Terrible feeling.

Second: just emotionally. Didn’t kiss or fuck, so I thought it was fine. But cheating is what “isn’t allowed” but it’s rather will hurt the other person and break their trust so it was cheating none the less. 
Third: yes. Fully cheating. Fucked 4-5 chicks while studying abroad (she had an idea but didn’t care) and fucked one chick on a random night out. That’s the one which she cared a ton about. We broke up and kept fucking while she at least knew I was fucking other chicks, so it was honest.

fourth, and current, girlfriend: before officially dating I was still fucking #3. She didn’t know, and she found out and asked me about it. I didn’t lie and straight up told her “yes. We are not and were not exclusive.” Wasnt happy and we took a break. We reconnected a few months later when we started actually dating. We also have extremely great communication. I have been open about the fact I have cheated on previous girlfriends - not an easy convo.
 

It’s a terrible Feeling hurting someone you care about and I will refuse to ever feel that again. I will tell a girl straight up that I need to be single before I would cheat on her. Have definitely grown a ton and it’s shitty that people got hurt in that process but I can only make sure that no more people do.

 

Coming from someone who whores themself out for greasy cheeseburgers . . . smh

"Some things are believed because they are demonstrably true. But many other things are believed simply because they have been asserted repeatedly—and repetition has been accepted as a substitute for evidence." - Thomas Sowell
 

I think if I can get my deadlift high enough though, my wife's gonna have no choice but to start bringing other chicks into the mix in order to satiate my toxic masculinity. I'll keep plugging away.

heister: Look at all these wannabe richies hating on an expensive salad. https://arthuxtable.com/
 

If you’re unwilling to make sacrifices and undergo even the slightest discomforts to be with your SO  , then that’s not love.

And if you find looks to be a major weakness than find someone who is attractive to start with. Don’t waste a 6s time.

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In high school I cheated on my girlfriend while I was away at summer camp. We stayed friends because she's really bad at cutting off toxic people from her life (yes obvs I was toxic at that point). Later on, she became best friends with my current girlfriend. About 10 years after I had cheated on her she tried to initiate a threesome with me and my current girlfriend. 

Some people just work differently lol

 

There are tons who cheat on their significant others. Just go through the AMP reviews (yelp and WSO for Asian massage parlors) forum to see how many users especially in NY are on there. And they review women as if they are in a  fish market lol. Then you have escort agencies in NYC- lear talent, diamond desires, desires of new york, etc.  Again, spending 15 mins on AMP reviews gives you all these details. You have names of the pimps/madam, addresses, etc but ever wonder why these wont get shut down? Because cops, district attorney's, judges, etc are customers lol. Now with this info, tell me, do you think someone cheating on their significant other are some rare one off things? Nope, You have people cheating on a weekly basis, sometimes multiple times a week. And easier to do mental gymnastics and pretend it's nobody that we know cheat but the people who see an escort or get a handy from an AMP are literally around us all the time (dad, brother, friend, co worker, etc). Heck the place they go see an escort could even by an apartment down the hall from us. If you ever see someone from Lear or the usual suspects you will know what I mean. This is the world we live in. 

 

Just because there are lots of dirty reviews on some Asian massage parlor website doesn’t mean a significant portion of the population is using them. It’s mostly lonely men.

You’re literally going directly to the source of the cheating (escort websites) and saying “look, everyone is doing it”.

I acknowledge people cheat. But acting like 50% of college educated individuals cheat is just wrong (excluding low income folks bc I’m guessing they cheat more)

 

Never mentioned any % whether it's 50% or 60% in my post. And to your point about lonely men is not true  according to the escorts themselves. Cannot find a better source than that. Many are married, escorts can see the ring, it is not hard for them to also look up your name using your cell phone number and see your facebook, many have kids as well, again if you want me to take out a spreadsheet and quantify that, I cannot do that. This is mainly from lear talent/diamond desires/desires of NY/slixa/eros escorts. Not necessarily bedpage tier escorts. There is a difference in terms of experience and hence the clientele. My overall point is that we all live in a bubble. So much of it is a facade. A 35 year old VP sees an escort for a GFE/30 min quickie before heading home to have dinner with his wife and kisses his daughter on the forehead before putting her to sleep. That VP could be your brother, best friend and you may never know. If you want to see what a high volume place looks like, you are free to hang outside the apartment building at one of Lears spots and see how many people show up every 30 mins. PS- All the units at the apartment building are typically occupied by the escorts/leased by Jay-the owner of Lears, so anyone that shows up to the building is a customer lol. 

 

Sorry to say that people from ALL walks of life see escorts. Lears/Desires of NY tier escorts are $150-300/hr. It is not that expensive in the grand scheme of things. So, it's not just the bankers that can afford that. Harsh reality check and it's almost impossible for you to find out most of the times but it is what it is. 

 

This is a long post and I thought about whether I should post this or not. I’m sure I will get judged but here goes.

Yes I have cheated on my SO with an escort. Was sitting out my non-compete, and girlfriend was working IB hours. I wasn’t in a good state - shit mental health and had no friends in the city apart from my girlfriend who was swamped with work.

Booked a working girl and unexpectedly, we got on well in terms of chat. Went for couple of meals and coffees together. She thought I was single but suspected otherwise at times as many of her clients were married. Why did I lie about my relationship status? I don’t know - maybe it was me pretending to be a non-shit person. Besides, who would’ve thought anything would come out of it when seeing an escort. No money was involved and I avoided all forms of physical stuff when we hung out outside of that one booking. I genuinely just enjoyed having company with someone. But there was no end goal - I didn’t want to be in a relationship with this working girl, I didn’t really like her more than a friend, I couldn’t bring myself to flirt with her, and it would never be real as we didn’t even know each others real names. Also obviously, I could have just been a trick for her. Whichever way you look at it - I was digging a hole for myself. 

I waited 8 months (we met maybe 5 times in this period) before I told her I had started seeing someone new in the city. Those 8 months were awful for me. Why did I wait so long? She’d mentioned how some guys would be interested in ‘chasing’ her but would end up being flaky as they later reveal they were actually married. At that time, I thought waiting it out would make things look less obvious (totally possible someone new comes into your life in a 8month window if you’re single). Either way, after 8 months I told her I started seeing someone new and we said we’d keep in touch as friends but that never happened. I was upset to the extent that I lost a friend but there really was no other gentler way I could think of.

Those 8 months were horrible. I couldn’t deal with how awful a person I was. I justified it to myself by saying “I don’t actually have feelings for this working girl and we’re not doing anything physical” so is there really anything wrong? But I felt immense guilt and just could not focus on my day to day. Here I was potentially manipulating the feelings of this girl, and to make it worse, I was doing it behind my girlfriends back? At this point, my non compete was over and I started a new job which was really tough to get up to speed on. With everything going on, I genuinely contemplated killing myself multiple times. I knew I was a shit person and just wanted a way to climb out of this hole by nicely putting things to rest with the working girl so I could go back to my real relationship and be happy.

What does my girlfriend know today? I was so messed up in that 8 months that I just had to say something. I told her there was a girl I hung out with a couple times and that the girl might like me but I don’t like her in that way. I didn’t say how we met, and I didn’t say that we did “hand stuff” during that 1 booking. My girlfriend said she didn’t care if the girl liked me and we hung out. As long as I didn’t like the other girl back. I’ve never told my girlfriend about that booking. It was a stupid mistake and I will regret it for the rest of my life. I don’t think I’ll ever tell my girlfriend that as I honestly think it would do more harm than good. But I will live the rest of my life with this scarring me at the back of my mind.

Lesson learnt - don’t cheat or do anything stupid like what I did. It’s just not worth it.

 

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