I’ll tell you this. My ex cheated on me and left me when our D was 6 months for his affair partner which he is married to now, 12 years later.
My daughter is a well-adjusted, loved, brilliant emotionally intelligent young lady. She is a very happy kid with friends and a positive outlook.
I hve a feeling if I stayed in the marriage with a cheater who had no desire to change and treated me as I did and I took it, my daughter wouldn’t be as well adjusted as she is now. She would have suffered a lot of damage.