Humans are the most bizarre creatures - Part 2 - Why do people cheat?
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Why do humans cheat?
Cheating defined: to act dishonestly or unfairly in order to gain an advantage.
As humans we are naturally curious creatures. We often get bored, and we are always looking for more fun ways to entertain ourselves. Very few people are content with what they have, and many are often no longer satisfied with decisions they made earlier.
We are constantly motivated from all sides to strive for better things in our lives. We WANT to improve ourselves, and during that search for something better or more exciting, we might take chances that we would not have taken previously.
Relationships can become boring and we might be searching for that same feeling we had in the very beginning of our relationship, and because humans long to get that feeling back, they cheat on their spouses to get that excitement back.
To stay committed to a dull and unexciting relationship is often difficult, and it takes a lot of willpower to keep whatever is left, alive.
Marriage is hard work, and we constantly need to work towards keeping our marriages alive and healthy, BUT then life happens. We have children, and they often change the whole relationship. We work too much to provide for our families, and then the much needed effort we used to put in our relationships flies right out the window. We are too tired to put in effort, and then when there is an escape from all the madness it is then that people step over the line.
My personal opinion is that if you are in a committed relationship it doesn’t matter if anything is offered to you on a silver platter, you will fight against that urge, and stay committed, but we are all just human, and we make mistakes.
Some people are not committed enough to a specific relationship to stay faithful to the person they are supposedly committed to. It is a fact that everyone changes over time, and people drift apart. We are not the same as we were when we got married/ committed to a relationship. We get so used to each other that we forget what we had to start off with.
To cheat or not to cheat - That is the question....
Did you know that men are more likely to cheat, and 30 % of all humans do NOT have an issue with infidelity? These days there are even open relationships where people cheat openly with the approval from their spouse. (I suppose if you have the approval of your spouse then it is not so much cheating right?)
What is your opinion about cheating? (One’s a cheater always a cheater?)
Do you believe that a marriage can survive infidelity?