Evidently, we’re not so different from women when it comes to our jealousy reactions to infidelity. Makes sense to me. We’re not as ’emotional’ as women on the surface, but we hurt pretty much the same underneath.
… women were twice as likely as men to break it off if their partners cheated.
I wonder why that is?
The findings also demonstrated that the majority of the couples broke up over the infidelity
Jeez. Makes me grateful. In my 28 year marriage to Robbie, I remember rocky times when I could have easily had an affair but there didn’t seem to anyone around to have one with. At other times, when the temptations were strong, I was lucky enough to be in a good enough place with her so that it didn’t happen. So it was mainly luck that we didn’t have to deal with infidelity in our first 20 years. And in the last 8, it’s been mainly work — work on the relationship — that’s prevented it.
One problem I do have with these short reports on ‘cheating’ spouses, though, is that there’s seldom reference to the 50-50 nature of the couples’ problems. ‘Cheater’ implies one spouse behaving badly and the other spouse as the victim. ‘Tain’t so.