"An affair. People fantasize, sure – having problems with your spouse or feeling unappreciated? Marriage counseling, divorce, etc. All better options than infidelity. It leaves lasting scars and tears apart families. Over the last several years I feel like I’ve seen such an increasing number of families destroyed.
I know one husband who went off to the oil fields because his wife requested he find a better job. Dude is gone 6 months of the year (in two month increments). Wife starts feeling lonely and unappreciated and has an affair with a co-worker. It’s taken four years for one of her kids to even talk to her again. Bad blood everywhere. Marriage counseling, communication, and even a divorce if it was needed all could have avoided the situation."
#11 Yes, it does, especially when theirs is three times a year, maybe... so there is a bit of "it's good for US, to do it more often" and the excitement when they agree to a time in the future (it's never in the moment for them, they have to build up to it).
#16 Yeah, cheating never makes a good situation, but the older people get the more likely it becomes, so there isn't a uptick in infidelity, you are just reaching the age where your age group is doing it.