Damn you cheaters!! There is just no way to deal with you.
So, I was watching a movie about.. whatever, the thing is the girl suspects her husband is cheating so of course she asks him. "Look into my eyes and tell me if you cheated!!", she says despperately.
If you think about it really well, what is the point of asking that. First, if you suspect your husband or boyfriend is cheating, what do you gain by asking him? "So i'd know for sure", a friend of mine told me. Really, do you want to know? If you're sure, will you dump him? Right there on the spot? If so then fine, go ahead and ask. If not...
Another friend said "So we can work things out". If he wanted to "work things out" he would tell you himself. He would come out and confess his little game and either beg forgivness and promise he'll never do it again (fat chance), or he will dump you.
Be really objective. You have seriously strong suspicions of his cheating so, after tears and a long confrontation in which he denies everything, you tell him "Look me in the eye and swear you didn't cheat", two things will possibly happen: One, he will look you in the eye and say he didn't do it. Maybe it's true, but if you are a normal person with a normal degree of paranoia, you know, not a total jealous freak, you had reasons to confont him. Chances are if he's really being true to you, he'd already explained the late nights and the lost look in his eyes. Or maybe he's just a liar. Maybe he just stared into your eyes and lied to your face, even managing a glint of a tear.
Then again he can look down and blush and avoid your eyes, and then you have confirmation. He's a cheat. And then you're back to square 1, now you know. What to do with that knowledge? Problem with this scenario is that he can use confessing as leverage to get you to forgive him, "I could've lied you know." Yeah, he also could've, I don't know, NOT cheated?
So you see? The way I look at it there is just no winning side on asking if he cheats. If you suspect cheating you have two more healthy options. The obvious is to send his cheating ass packing. Or you can just ignore it and milk the situation for as long as you can. Stop cooking and tending to him. Take a sabbatical and live off him. Treat yourself to luxuries on his credit card, even a trip with your girl friends, or better yet, get a special friend of your own, just read your prenup carefully before you do it. And when you're done riding the guilt train, dump him!
Math never lies, numbers are completely objective with no regard to anybody's feelings. And math tells us that ones a guy cheats, chances are he'll do it again, and again. So dump his ass and move on. It'll probably hurt at first, but like good cosmetic surgery, you'll end up looking like a million bucks!
I should know, having recentlly been cheated on and lived through the "I'm looking into your eyes and lying through my teeth" routine. But I'm a survivior and I'm out..