15 January 2018

IFLScience: New Study Attempts To Explain Why People Cheat

Another reason included them simply wanting more variety in sexual partners (74 percent). The top reason for why those who took part in the survey cheated was because they felt a lack of love (77 percent). [...]

The main reason why men and women engaged in infidelity was because their partners weren’t completely invested in “fulfilling their needs for interdependence”, leaving them to feel as if they should look elsewhere for it (73 percent). Interdepence in a relationship is described as a healthy mutual reliance on each other. On the other hand, 20 percent yearned for more independence. [...]

In fact, a past study published in The Journal of Sex Research surveyed individuals to find out why some changed their minds when thinking about cheating. The study included 423 individuals who rated 29 given reasons for why they avoided infidelity. The highest answer was their morality and being scared of ending up alone. What’s more, the chances of women cheating were most likely to occur within six to 10 years of marriage, while for men it was after 11 years.

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