Why do men or women cheat on their partners?

It is only those that lack respect and good morals find it enticing to cheat on their spouse. Also, those who lack respect for the marriage institution and have no pride willingly indulge in such harmful act.

Good question! I've been on both sides of this very question at alternate times of my life. During my first marriage I was the culprit.

I had married a woman who was not my soul mate. We were young, she was pregnant, so we got married. I had taken a job a 100 miles from where we had grown up, and she couldn't handle being away from her mother.

She made frequent trips back to see her mother leaving me alone frequently. One night in a bar a woman took great intertest in me, and the 3hr tango soon followed. This was about 1979 and it still haunts my psychie.

What I've discovered about myself through all these years of introspection is quite astounding. First let me say guilt is a great betrayer. I confessed and that was a mistake.

Sounds alot like bragging to the jilted one. Furthermore it was a flaw in my character and circumstances had little to do with it, or it would've happened sooner or later irregardless of oppurtunity. The other thing I discovered was love played no part in it.

I was not in love with the beautiful woman who seduced me, nor was I in love with my wife. What followed was 12yrs of bad marriage, which ended in divorce. The most surprising part of that was the failed marriage had nothing to do with that transgression, and everything to do with it.

Let me explain. It was not the fact that I had a transgression, it was the reason I had the transgression. 1) I had a character flaw 2) I was really not in love 3) After all these years I still try to rationalize it 4) Look at all that time we both wasted.

Today I am happily married to my 3rd wife, My first wife and I are good friends(nothing more). In the end karma paid me back in spades with wife #2, you just can't escape the old addage" What goes around, Comes around"! Hope this helps you, someday perhaps I'll tell you the other side of the story, and what I've discovered about being jilted.

However I get the feeling you already know what that feels like-keep your chin up, and never let the wild dogs of love drag you down!

I think people only cheat, when there is one facet of the relationship that isn't meeting their needs. People get together for many reasons, but as time goes on, if one of the partners isn't getting what they need sexually they will more than likely stray. Sometimes its because -sex drives are imbalanced (one needs more than the other)communication is poor and they feel someone else will listen (mostly women)incompatibility (staying together for the kids/house)In a true loving relationship, things need to be equal, which can be difficult to find, but if you wait long enough and don't rush in, you will find it in the end!

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.