Khloé Kardashian Says She Doesn’t Take Exes Cheating on Her Personally

Khloé Kardashian isn’t taking the blame for her former companions’ unhealthy conduct. 

The 40-year-old actuality star struggled with rumored infidelity each in her marriage to Lamar Odom and in her relationship with the daddy of her youngsters, Tristan Thompson. But the mom of two isn’t letting that outline how she feels about herself. 

“I know what was done to me was not about me,” Kardashian advised Jay Shetty on the Wednesday, Jan. 22, episode of her Khloé in Wonderland podcast. “I know that was about them, and they have past trauma that they’ve never healed from.” 

The Good American founder defined that when she would ask exes why they made the choice to cheat, they’d reply, “‘Oh, my parents or I came from a broken house.’ It’s always something like that. It’s never about the immediate relationship.”

Kardashian — mother to daughter True Thompson, 6, and son Tatum Thompson, 2 — additionally acknowledged the assistance of her family members to get by way of the struggles of her failed relationships.

“If it wasn’t for my family, my core circle and also my relationship with God… I just learned it wasn’t about me,” she stated. 

Kardashian stated she additionally realized that as an alternative of viewing the dishonest as one thing that was achieved to her, she’s been in a position to understand that the incidents had been truly about her exes. 

“I was used for that person to learn life lessons,” she stated, including that she at all times tried to deal with the offender with compassion and kindness.

“No matter what someone did to me, I was never manipulative or trying to do the same thing back,” she defined. 

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Kardashian and Odom met in 2009 and obtained married inside a month. Their marriage was plagued with infidelity rumors, and in 2013 Kardashian filed for divorce. Similarly, Kardashian and Thompson met in 2016 and welcomed their first little one collectively amidst rumors of infidelity in 2018. The former couple rekindled their romance a number of instances, finally calling it quits in late 2021 after Thompsonfathered a baby with Maralee Nichols whereas nonetheless in a relationship with Kardashian. 

But Kardashian is decided to not take that “baggage” into her subsequent relationship, explaining she is a “hopeless romantic” who believes within the “fairytale.”

However, the truth star is not specializing in romance proper now.

“I’m not dating because my relationship with my kids just is everything to me,” Kardashian defined. “I feel so fulfilled. And I also love that I’ve taken about three years off of dating. And I feel like I’ve really got to know myself on a deeper level.” She added her hopes that her subsequent relationship will lead to her “endlessly accomplice.”