text: if you could pick between being lonely and being cheated in a relationship, which would you choose? i'm trying to figure out my own problem of whether i'd be happier waiting for that right guy or risking a relationship only to be cheated. what do you guys/girls think? i would pick being lonely because i have gone through the bad times of my x husband being drunk and taking off for days. not knowing if he was dead or alive. everyone thought the bottle was his other woman. and it was for years then one day he moved in with another woman and i was left with a handicapped child. i would take the handicapped child any day over the abuse i got from the marriage. when a handicapped child puts his arms around you and can't speek a word. it puts real meaning to mothers day, especially when all your friend seem to dissappear and you left with nothing else.