The site revealed that 85 percent of female members had been forgiven over a previous affair, while the same could only be said for 80 percent of men. When asked if they would forgive a partner for playing away, 86 percent of men said they would, while only 82 percent of women reciprocated. Discussing the interesting findings, psychotherapist Lucy Beresford said it was about the perception of relationships between the sexes.
The data also showed that while you might have expected the pandemic to have affected people's ability to get their leg over behind their partners' back, it hasn't. The site found that most people who cheat have two illicit rendezvous a month. However, around a fifth of people having an affair say they don't actually have sex with their secret partner.
The vast majority said that, aside from not getting their sexual needs met, they felt they had pretty good lives with good men. Weiner-Davis says that difference is not borne out in her practice, however. Such was the case with Lawrence, the woman who chose to cheat on her husband after enduring his numerous affairs. Eventually, Lawrence started checking his phone and found what she thought was proof of multiple affairs.
Her husband, she says, trivialized the messages. While there is little data on whether men or women are more likely to opt for dissolution when they are the cheating partner, Munsch theorizes that, because women tend to have more emotional affairs while men tend to stray strictly for sex, women are more likely to want a divorce. Lawrence chose to have an affair with a man who she felt loved her for who she was.
After the relationship was exposed to her husband, the affair ended badly, she says. Although the couple stayed together for a few more months, Lawrence got an attorney when she learned that her husband was having another affair. After six years of marriage and within a year of her infidelity, Lawrence filed for divorce. One thing is true: Many women find themselves experiencing infidelity, whether they are the betrayed or the betrayer.
But social stigma keeps a lot of them from talking about it. In the end, Walker says, communication may be the crux of the issue in instances of infidelity. She says the biggest takeaway from her research is that couples need to have more conversations before reaching the tipping point. Jill Coody Smits is a freelance writer focusing on health, psychology and human rights. Skip to content Marriage. Maria Alconada Brooks.
Jill Coody Smits. The article addresses infidelity and the mechanisms behind forgiveness. A research group at NTNU recruited 92 couples for the study. These couples independently completed a questionnaire related to issues described in hypothetical scenarios where the partner had been unfaithful in various ways. All over the world, infidelity is one of the most common reasons that relationships end. So how willing are people to forgive their partner? Whether partners believe the relationship can continue also depends on how willing they are to forgive each other, especially in terms of avoiding distancing themselves from their partner.
Of course, great individual differences exist, even within each gender. People react differently to infidelity, according to their personality and the circumstances.
Another aspect plays a role in cases of emotional infidelity, where no sex has taken place. To what extent can the unfaithful partner be blamed for what happened? The relationship is at greater risk if the partner is required to bear a big part of the responsibility for ending up in an intimate relationship with someone else.
Possible forgiveness does not depend on accepting blame. Adolescents who are open to casual sex are more often involved in sexual harassment — both as victims and as perpetrators. How often women in heterosexual couples desire sex depends on how committed the relationship is and what type of birth control the woman uses.
Researcher Marita Skjuve has been interviewing people who have a close relationship with a chatbot called Replika. Women and men look at different kinds of infidelity differently.
But they forgive their partners pretty much the same way. Illustration photo: Shutterstock, NTB scanpix. By Steinar Brandslet - Published Contact Mons Bendixen. Contact Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair.
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