Yep. Sex. Period. They need to feel their ego stroked too and “powerful” over some bimbo that thinks they are wonderful. |
Umm. Not. |
Well- who the h@ll wants a loser like that? Just a skank |
The sad part is the women on there are looking for exit affairs. The men are not, but will lead them on. |
+1. Factors for staying include big financial hit to leave, loss of time with kids, and AP isn’t long term wife material. My DH left his wife for me. They didn’t have kids, he left with more money than he had when he entered the relationship, I make more than his ex-wife, I’m younger and prettier than his ex-wife, and they had a terrible, non-existent sex life. They had been married for 10 years, and he left her a month after we met. If it wasn’t me, it would’ve been someone else. Some marriages aren’t built to last forever. |
Why did you want somebody else’s trash? Were you not hot enough to get a successful, good-looking single man? I would never want a married men. Once a cheater, always a cheater. Just wait. 2nd marriages have a 70-75% failure rate. It sounds like he did a real number on you. |
That’s so pathetic. |
| Men usually don’t leave bc men tend to affair down. They are looking for opportunity, not someone to date and grow a relationship. It’s common that the affair partner is much less attractive, accomplished, etc than the wife. Women tend to cheat for more emotional reasons and often are looking for exits. |
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They do sometimes. My ex-DH left me for his affair partner some 20 years ago and he's just left his wife and 3 kids for another affair partner.
Never say never. |
Yes. It’s a shame they can’t find catches like the 3 husbands and counting who did this despite having perfect, always up for it DWs. Once all that childhood trauma forces them to betray, it’s awful. |
Bingo. No job, not as intelligent, not as attractive. Willing to settle for scraps. That describes the AP’s of the men I know. None of them had plans to leave. Mid-life escapism. |
That’s surprising
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| I think most men don’t leave for financial reasons, for DC stability, and in some cases social stigma. (I have a large extended Catholic family and very few divorces- maybe 1 per generation. While it would be excepted there is a lot of pressure to make it work b/c it just doesn’t happen.) |
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I have seen it happen twice. Second marriage with APs are going on longer than the first marriage (second marriages longer than 15 and 10 years, respectively)
Both of those instances were people in the wrong marriage to begin with. |
| My reasons: I love my wife and family but my wife doesn't want to have sex, so I found someone who does. She is great in bed, we mesh on some levels but it wouldn't work long term. If I leave my wife, I want to be single for at least a while, not to jump into another relationship. Also, I am very jaded about long term relationships, at least when it comes to sex. I assume my AP will tire of having sex with me too, it's not personal, just how long term relationships go. |