No one commits adultery without first being able to justify their reasons for doing so. The problem with such justifications is they are falsehoods, a way of engaging in bad behaviour without having to think about the consequences of the adultery to others.
The adulterer lives in a mythical, storybook world. The realities of their actions are far different than the “reality” they create to justify the adultery.
Adultery Causes Emotional Pain
Myth 1.
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Women cheat as much as men. This should have read a little more gender neutral, for women who are having an affair to understand what they are doing to their partners.
I think monogamy is tricky - many marriages actually do survive infidelity and go on to be stronger, it's not necessarily a zero sum game. It's a lot to expect someone to be monogamous for 60-odd years, particularly when one partner (male OR female) can make a unilateral decision that they are no longer interested in intimacy or sex.