When you hurt a good woman, karma will hurt you back. It won’t happen immediately, but it will hurt you later when you fail to learn from your mistakes and do the same things to someone else.
Karma works in mysterious ways. Most people expect it to punish people right away. They want it to strike their friend, coworker, partner, or ex-partner while their wound is still fresh, so it can give them the satisfaction they crave. Unfortunately for them, that usually doesn’t happen. It doesn’t hit people when they want it to the most.
Karma is impersonal. It doesn’t have feelings and doesn’t care how victims feel or want to feel. It only cares about people’s immoral actions. The worse their actions are, the quicker it pays them a visit.
Usually, karma comes knocking on their door when they carry on like nothing happened, refuse to grow within, and hurt another (perhaps not so kind and patient) person. That’s when it blows up in their face and teaches them not to mess with people.
If you were in a relationship and your partner did you dirty (let’s say he cheated and left you), his life will be far from easy. To you, it may seem like he won’t have to pay for his sinful deeds, but rest assured that he’ll have to face the consequences of his actions (his karma). It may not happen right away, but eventually, he’ll have to acknowledge the fact that he’s a cheater who left and hurt a good woman due to a lack of morality, self-awareness, and self-control.
Whether his relationship succeeds or not, he’ll be branded as a cheater and have to live with his immoral deeds for the rest of his life. If he cares about his conscience, he’ll feel guilty and may reach out to you for forgiveness. He could also be forced to tell the people he dates that he betrayed an ex. He may opt to lie, but that probably won’t feel good either.
Every time his partner condemns cheaters, he’ll remain silent and ponder about his actions. Karma for him will be a constant reminder that he acted on his urges and selfishly replaced one person with another.
You’ll eventually get over the betrayal, but he’ll remain known as a cheater and perhaps even feel bad about it. His girlfriend (the one he cheated with) will also struggle to accept him fully. She’ll know that her relationship started on cheating terms and that he could do the same to her. The girl will have difficulty considering the relationship perfect and thinking she’s so special she won’t get cheated on and left for another person.
Therefore, their relationship could bring shame or disgrace and lack the assurance that cheating won’t happen again.
If the guy who cheated on you isn’t a very more person, however, then he’ll face different karmic justice. His lack of guilt, regret, and pain will cause him to repeat the same patterns and make the same mistakes. This means he’ll stay tempted to cheat and monkey-branch when his relationship slows down and encounters problems he previously ignored.
The saying “once a cheater, always a cheater” will likely hold true for him. He’ll feel tempted to abandon what he has with his partner and pursue someone else’s validation.
This is just an example of how cheaters face their karma. If your partner or ex-partner did something mean to you, don’t think that he’ll go unpunished. He’ll either feel super bad for hurting you or ignore his mistakes and flaws and repeat them in the future (possibly with someone else).
I can’t predict the future, but I know that people who hurt others and feel victimized don’t evolve as people. They stay exactly as they are and because of it, face their karma in various ways.
Partners who make the same mistakes leave or get broken up with. Ex-partners who pin the blame on their ex experience the same issues in their next relationships. And people who use their friends and are mean to them lose their friendships and feel lonely and socially unfulfilled.
Karma plays no favorites and gets everyone. Even those who are generally good people but made a mistake. If they mistreated another person (even if it was only once), they remember what they did and feel guilty about it. Guilt is their karma and gives them a chance to learn from their mistakes and avoid them in the future.
Karma is different from revenge. Revenge is instant and requires you to do something to get back at the person who hurt you. It’s retaliation for bad, unacceptable behavior. Karma, on the other hand, doesn’t require anything from you. It does all the work for you and lets you keep your conscience clear.
Its catchphrase is, “As you sow, so shall you reap.” If you do others wrong, others will do wrong to you. They’ll fight back verbally, hurt you physically, destroy your property, sue you, spread rumors, interfere with your new relationship, warn the new person about your mistreatment (instill doubt), make you feel guilty, or simply allow you to stay as you are and watch you dig your own grave.
Don’t think of karma as some deity presiding over people’s good and bad deeds. Think of it as every person being responsible for his or her own actions. A responsible person feels a sense of responsibility for causing problems and pain whereas an irresponsible one moves forward and runs into similar problems in the future.
You can’t outrun karma. Eventually, it catches up to you and forces you to do something about it.
In this post, we talk about the karma of hurting a good woman. We discuss when people face karma and how it affects them.
The karma of hurting a good woman
Bear in mind that karma doesn’t punish a guy (or woman) just because you were a nice, hardworking, and reliable partner. It doesn’t hurt him and make him regret taking you for granted solely because you made his life better. What you were like as a person doesn’t matter and won’t matter unless he gets involved with the wrong person or gets in some kind of trouble.
In that case, karma (which is a bad/impulsive decision to leave) could cause him to reflect on his actions and make him realize that he left and hurt a good woman. If he doesn’t apologize and win her trust back, he could stay hurt and feel undesirable.
Therefore, the karma of hurting a good woman can do its job when he stops justifying his behavior and starts feeling guilty or when he hurts some other woman and gets hurt by her. That’s when he’ll get hit by karma hard, experience pain and regret, and be forced to think about his actions.
If he takes his lessons seriously, he might finally learn that he was punished due to his lack of growth and repeated mistakes.
If you were good to him most of the time, he could have an epiphany and discover that he was the problem. For that to happen though, you must leave him completely alone. Don’t talk to him and show him you need him to be happy. That will give him more power and make it harder for him to think of you as a good woman.
Also, don’t take revenge on your ex. If you lower your moral standards and try to hurt him, he’ll see that you took things personally and want him to suffer. And when he’s convinced that you want to harm him, he won’t feel guilty for causing you pain. He’ll feel that you want to punish him and that he can move on with a clear conscience.
So if you want to know how the karma of hurting a good woman works, you need to understand that it works only when you distance yourself from the guy and let karma get him on its own. If you take matters of justice into your own hands and try to speed up the process by getting directly involved, you could justify his bad behavior and decisions for leaving and help him not feel responsible for what he said or did.
He’ll still face karma later (he’ll treat the next person the same way and get punished for it), but you won’t feel good about trying to make him miserable.
That’s why it’s extremely important to let the karma of hurting a good woman work alone. I know you want him to suffer the consequences of his actions immediately, but if you try to make his life miserable, you’ll be taking revenge, not letting him get hit by karma. You’ll be expecting him to pay for what he did directly rather than indirectly with his own failures.
Karma works only when you let go of control and let the universe punish him for his mistakes. It doesn’t work when you try to make him feel miserable yourself.
Always remember that the karma of hurting a good woman takes time and that it won’t work if you do something to hurt him.
If you deal with karma directly, you’ll get karma yourself because you’ll:
- fail to understand what karma is
- fail to deal with negative thoughts and emotions
- become a reactive/vengeful person who gets back at people
- and hurt your ex on purpose and tempt your ex to retaliate
So if you don’t want your ex to hurt you back and get your own karma, don’t turn into a punisher and discipline your ex. Let karma take care of your ex while you ensure your karma stays positive. If you focus on leaving the past behind, your life will get better and your ex’s will get worse. You may not see your ex’s problems and pain when karma finally catches up to your ex, but that’s okay.
You can be certain your ex will react to problems, deal with difficulties, and behave the same way as before. His lack of self-investment will lead to failure and more pain down the line.
You’ll learn and improve now whereas your ex will be forced to do it later. This means he’ll waste a lot of time chasing the wrong things. And the worst thing about it is that he might not grow even when he’s in pain and forced to grow.
It comes down to his self-awareness and ability to learn from mistakes.
With that said, here’s how the karma of hurting a good person works on a guy who inflicted pain.
Whether your ex or the person in question likes hurting people and feeling in control of their emotions or simply lacks empathy, self-awareness, and communication skills, karma’s on its way to get him. He won’t be able to avoid his punishment because sooner than later, he’ll cross paths with the wrong (vengeful) person who explodes at him and teaches him a powerful lesson.
Fortunately for you, that person won’t be you. You won’t react impulsively and give him the privilege of stooping down to his level and ruining your karma. Instead of letting him drag you down with him, you’ll step back from the situation and give him time to encounter problems, pain, and inconveniences (karma).
Always remember that a good woman doesn’t seek revenge and confrontation. She distances herself from people who mistreat her and lets the universe take care of the rest.
The guy’s karma for hurting a good woman will entail losing her completely and ending up with someone who may not give him what he looks for in a woman. He could find someone incompatible with different relationship goals and communication habits who makes his life a living hell. Despite that, though, he could stay with her and value her more than any other woman simply because she doesn’t give him what he wants.
Some guys value the wrong things and stay miserable because of it.
Does karma punish those who hurt others?
Karma definitely punishes those who hurt others. It doesn’t punish them for the pain they’ve caused (pain varies for each person) but for the actions they took. It punishes them for acting poorly and learning nothing from it.
If you’re hoping for the person who hurt you to stub his toe, get a flat tire, or get hurt in the same kind of fashion as you, you’re hoping for something too specific. That likely won’t happen while you’re still longing for vengeance and recognition.
Karma won’t hit this person in ways you want it to. Bad things might happen to him (things such as wrecking his car and losing a job or a friend), but they won’t be related to his bad treatment.
Karma doesn’t punish people randomly by taking something they love or need from them. That would be way too personal. It punishes them when they neglect their responsibilities and attitude and expect unrealistic results. That’s when they get fired or broken up with and shown that they’re unworthy of love, respect, attention, or their current position.
They suffer because they get hit by reality and face justice.
So keep in mind that karma punishes those who hurt others and expect things to go their way. It shows them that people have their limits and that they can’t get away with improper behavior. They may go unpunished when they hurt a forgiving, moral, and respectful person in the sense of not being confronted, but they can’t do that when they encounter a self-loving, short-tempered, and unforgiving individual.
When they try to take advantage of a strong individual, they face her wrath and suffer. Some people keep making the same mistakes until someone brings them back to reality and demands respect.
You don’t need to worry too much about other people’s karma. Knowing that someone who hurt you got hurt back may give you a sense of satisfaction, but this feeling is completely unnecessary. It doesn’t help you better yourself as a person and have better relationships in the future.
It just helps you feel even.
That’s why I’d like you to focus on your own karma instead. Be the bigger person and do what you can to grow and improve. The person who hurt you will likely have to fail in some important way and get hurt before he reflects and evolves. He’ll have to learn things the hard way.
That means you don’t want him to face the karma of hurting a good woman. You want him to avoid karma to stay as he is, encounter the same issues over and over again, and blame others for his problems.
That’s the worst karma you can wish on someone who hurt you.
I hope you’ve learned how karma gets men (and women) who overestimate their abilities and worth and hurt others. Share your thoughts and ideas about karma in the comments below.
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My name is Zan and I’m the founder of Magnet of Success. I enjoy writing realistic relationship and breakup articles and helping readers heal and grow. With more than 5 years of experience in the self-improvement, relationship, and breakup sphere, my goal is to provide advice that fosters positivity and success and avoids preventable mistakes and pain. Buy me a coffee, learn more about me, or get in touch today.
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I just to believe in karma when I was really hurting. It helped soothe that a higher power would act on my behalf. After sometime I started thinking was his cheating my karma. I’ve lived my life by a strict moral code and as an empath physically cannot hurt others. Also thinking about others. So what was the reason for my initial pain? Who was karma acting on behalf of to result in my agony?
Hi Natalie.
Like I mentioned in the article, karma doesn’t strike randomly. It hits you directly for making a huge error or many consecutive mistakes. By cheating on you, your ex worsened his karma. He became a cheater who could have a hard time accepting his behavior and thinking of himself as a moral person.
You were a victim of his immoral deeds. You’ll get over it, but he won’t. He’ll either feel bad for what he did or do the same thing to someone else and fail at staying in a relationship long-term.
Kind regards,
Zan
I understand. My point is, would some say me being cheated on was karma for something wrong I did in the past?
I don’t agree with it.
I think all you can do is concentrate on yourself as you advocate so beautifully in other articles. In addition, keep a great distance from being able to hear, see or read any information on your ex.
Whether they did you wrong or not it’s best to not think about revenge or even karma.
Make peace with the new direction your life is taking. Let go of trying to control situations and other people.
I refuse to believe I deserved to be cheated on as a karma response to a previous wrong doing.
Hi Natalie.
You didn’t get cheated on because of karma. It happened because of your ex’s karma (lack of morals and self-control). The best thing you can do is forgive your ex and move forward with your life. Revenge is for the weak.
Sincerely,
Zan