Theoretically speaking, men are supposed to be the gender most likely to step out on their marriage and or relationship. A man can seemingly cheat, and have absolutely no connection to the person that they cheated with. They are able to “spread their seed” in a form of speaking, while still maintain the relationship they have at home. They are able to separate the physical from the emotional. There are men that cheat regularly, and still go home to the woman that they actually love. They cheat for the thrill, or maybe thinking with the wrong head. Or is this still accurate?
It is said that when women cheat, the scar is much deeper. By that I mean that when a woman steps out of her relationship, it is for reasons that could ruin her relationship. A woman that steps out isnt happy. She has made some sort of emotional connection to another man, for one reason or another.
But new studies show that some women, rather cheat than leave their husbands. They get the emotional connection and physical connection from someone other than their partner. Using a discreet website, a study was performed on women seeking extramarital affairs. The study on Ashleymadison.com took conversations from 100 women, (when you sign up for websites, read the fine print people, as the clauses stated that they could use their profiles for research purposes), about 65% of the women that were studied, lacked the passionate thrill that their marriage once gave them. The weird part about it is that they would rather have an affair than leave their husbands. They truly love the man that they took their vows with but they needed an emotional connection in order to be satisfied sexually. While a man is able to pretty much have sex with anyone.
No matter what the reason is for the cheating, on both ends, I still believe there are ways to save a marriage or relationship without stepping out on your partner. I still believe fully in monogamy, but the divorce rate would have to argue with me. I think divorce is a cop out and way too easy now a days. Ive always thought that you work at marriage because just like anything else, it isnt going to be easy. Its not going to be flowers and candy all the time but you work at it, and you try to understand each other. Marriage is building a family. And at the end of the day, family is all you’ve got.