Extramarital affairs or cheating has been widely studied over the past three decades.


When it comes to extramarital affairs and infidelity, three related explanations have been given.

The first explanation is probably the most well known: Spouses cheating because of problems in their relationship – something is missing, passion and love has diminished, partners feel alone,bored, people find another partner who treats them a whole lot better, than who they are presently with or who appreciates them more than their current partner, and so on.


Simply stated, couples claim that they are not comfortable or happy in their relationship so they look for affection and love away from their partner.

The second explanation is a lot deeper and complex in nature. This explanation ignores the reasons that people “give” the  statement why spouses cheat and looks deeper into our personal nature.

The second explanation examines what it means to be truthful and asks, “why is being faithful to a loved one so difficult for many folks to do?”
The last reason is that they are bored and they are looking for something new in their life and  a little more excitement and the fact that they can get a way with it.

The only way to think about these two reasons is to examine them as two sides of the same coin.

One explanation looks at what people “say” about extramaritial affairs and infidelity, while the other explanation looks at “how and why cheating” occurs.

Together, both explanations give us a more complete picture about why spouses cheat, romance and love.

On the pages that follow, these specific issues are addressed:

coming to grips with infidelity
making the decision to cheat
role of sexual desire
who is likely to cheat
how to prevent infidelity
There are many different ways to catch a cheating spouse,check out our website, WhySpousesCheat.com to find out some of the various methods.

If your spouse is cheating the best thing to do is to go for marriage counseling to save your marriage and get it back on track.