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5 situations that may influence your partner to cheat on you

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Cheating is hurtful, painful and downright wrong. But people who cheat, fail to understand this as they are not at the receiving end.


Monogamy is a situation enforced by the society. This is the reason most people resort to cheating few years after marriage or when in a relationship, as it is difficult to triumph over your faulty genes.

So now we know why they use the phrase labour of love, because it is really a task to stay committed to a relationship.

Here are five situation that might make your partner is cheat on you.

1. Emotional disconnect: Two people can be madly in love with each other, but can grow out of emotions with time. This is because the graph of emotional maturity and romance don’t move together. If either you or your partner has matured with time so much that you are at a different level of thoughts and emotions, which don t match with the other, the room for cheating is already created.

2. Power and authority: This is why they say when success goes to your head it is the beginning of your doom both professional and personally. However, not everyone in a powerful position will want to cheat. This is more prominent with people who are risk takers, have an adventurous streak in them. They are more inclined to cheat on their partners with people who work under them. A more scientific reason to establish this fact is not known, but according to a relationship expert this has been happening since the ancient times

3. Unsatisfied sexual desires: Yes, believe it or not, your relationship cannot thrive without physical intimacy. So if there is a lack of sex in your life, cheating is just a natural outcome. Many men are known to cheat on their wives during pregnancy or post-partum when a woman s sex drive is at an all time low. This sounds silly and wrong, but marital cheating is highest during these situations.

4. Influence of alcohol and drugs: Addiction impairs decision making and affects emotional and intellectual thinking. This is one reason people who are prone to alcohol and drugs have more of a tendency to cheat on their partners.

5. Separate goals: Sometimes different needs and goals in life can make cheating a mutual affair. People with a different set of jobs, different travel goals, different friends find it difficult to stay connected despite all their honest efforts. This is when cheating appears to be more alluring to them to satisfy their emotional and psychological needs. While a mutual separation seems rational at t

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