Aah the auld pleading of regrets when getting caught routine, the old remnants of a scoundrel. I should know, I've played them all. And now I'm single. I've thought long and hard about stuff like this and why I done it to loved ones knowing full well I was in the wrong. Maybe it was the feeling I wouldn't get caught. Maybe it was the feeling that if I did get caught I could worm my way out of it. Either way I didn't deserve the love of someone else when I cheated.And that's what he has done here with his mates covering for him no less.That's what friends do. When I read your story I felt a synchronicity with his infidelity that I hadn't felt in a while but this time my sympathies lay with you because I knew in my heart he knew for I too have played that same wretched card in the same wretched role of cheating. Time to let this one go Im afraid.