From my observation, the reason why someone would take back their cheating spouse is because they are not ready to let go.. everything happened so fast that their heart is not ready to let go of that person or that marriage. However, give a few months and that person will come to their senses and realized that they don't want to be that fool anymore and will be the one that leave the cheating spouse instead.
sometime it's not about letting go but a matter of
unimportant pride...they take the Ex back just so the new lover can't have them, ruined of what they had and like most women would do,
pay back double times 2! the relationship is no longer important, it just pride and revenge now...taking the Ex is the false gesture, believing that the original was a better lover/phucker or what have you. It is to prevent them from building a solid relationship. It is also a form of reverting the act of cheating, making the other person feel how it is to be cheated on. Lastly, most women take back the EX, just to torture; she's smart, she has no real intentions of rebuilding the relationship, she's taking him back so that she can do what he did to her, make him feel the real pain of cheating x2...she's gonna cheat and not behind his back, it'll be in front of his face, in front of his friends/relatives and in public. she's going to humiliate him, take all his materialistic things and then call the cops to lock him up, have a new bf move in with her and the final stab in the back, make him pay child support and alimony.
as most would say, 'be patient and take the high road so that when you put in your best efforts, there would be no regrets.'
i'd say, "phuck that sh!t! wb Zaj Dab Neeg twb xaus lawm!"
ha!