AFFAIRS – Myths & Facts
- Most couples survive affairs.
- Many couples come out stronger and more committed.
- Our culture gives the illusion of monogamy but the culture supports affairs and infidelity through the media (TV, News, Ads, and movies).
- Infidelity is the great equalizer because it cuts across education, sexual orientation, social and economic class, culture and gender.
- Women and men do it in equal numbers.
- Infidelity is always a choice, never forced. If it is forced then it is rape.
- It is normal to feel jealous.
- No marriage is immune from the possibility of infidelity. It takes ongoing honest communication and commitment to make a marriage work.
- Approximately 2/3 of marriages will never encounter infidelity and the other 1/3 will have to face it.
- Having an affair doesn’t mean that the involved partner isn’t getting enough sex or love at home. It not mutually exclusive, a person can be attached to their partner and still be attracted to, and romantically in love with another.
- Happily married individuals still have affairs.
- Having children does increase the chance of having an affair.
