Morals/self-control/honesty/integrity may prevent impulsive affairs but (over time) unmet biological needs will always prevail. Opportunity PLUS sexual dis-satisfaction in the marriage = affair |
Add, abused spouses who do not want to break up their families but are heartbroken and desperate for consolation or escape. |
I have found they also like ice cream |
+1. Some people wouldn’t cheat regardless of opportunity. Also, just because something has been a certain way for a long time doesn’t mean you have to accept it. |
+100. So true. |
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Cute Sensual Sensitive Doesn't like spouse much |
Not really. A sexless spouse already knows about the unmet biological needs but just does not care. Sex is simply unimportant to them, and more talking cannot make somebody desire sex who doesn't otherwise desire sex. Yet that sexless spouse chooses to stay sexlessly married. Since neither spouse wants to divorce, why do you suggest divorce? |
NP. Not really. Assuming that your spouse knows how you feel about a certain situation, especially when it could lead to cheating or divorce, is just either irresponsible or that you want to give yourself permission to cheat. Your spouse should not ever be surprised if you divorce if you have communicated well. |
Mine was. He threatened over and over for years and I told him for years that verbal, emotional, physical abuse were not okay and we was breaking his family. When I left with no further warning, he was stunned. |
Or worse. Read the Mark Gerardot story. He had a decent marriage beforehand, but changed the story to demonize his wife. Whereas he and the AP mentally tortured her in many ways. The young not so smart AP thought hurting and destroying the wife was fun and thrilling until it wasn't. The odd thing is at some point it was fairly predictable. While I don't condone what the wife did at least that AP won't destroy any more lives. And I don't think the cheater DH will cheat again in the future. |
| Love someone but will not leave their family for them so they hurt everyone but themselves. |
They don't love anyone especially the booty call. The part about not leaving says it all. |
| Men who cheat have the hearts of a small shriveled fruit, but not, that grows in a bush. |
| I think honestly a lot of them just lack empathy for the people they are betraying. If it doesn’t go agains their own moral code, or if they have rationalized it, they think that what they spouse does not know will not hurt them; they underestimate the chance of being caught and waaay underestimate the pain it will cause until it is too late, bc they figure the relationship is already f*cked so how much could it hurt. |