Your husband had an affair? Provide a better home. That’s the message that televangelist Pat Robertson conveyed in an episode of “The 700 Club” to a wife seeking help to get over her husband’s infidelity. This has resulted in some considerable backlash, prompting the Christian Broadcasting Network to release a …
Preventing Extra-Marital Affairs by Barry W McCarthy, Ph.D. (edited) 35-45% of marriages involve a sexual or emotional extra-marital affair. The most common way that people end a dating relationship is to begin dating (or at least flirting) with another person. When married most people (80% or more) assume that they …
There are many articles and advice columns that offer advice on how to ‘affair-proof’ your marriage/relationship. One affair-proofing-rule that is often postulated is that those in committed, monogamous relationships should avoid cross-gender friendships. The rationale behind this is often that there is always some hidden sexual agenda for one or …
So far I’ve avoided posting about this particularly abominable subject matter. Articles that claim that affairs can save relationships don’t do anything positive in terms of helping people understand infidelity and affairs, nor do they paint an accurate picture of the reality that affairs have on marriages. Women’s Affair Save …
Myths of Infidelity Source: PsychologyToday The people who are running from bed to bed creating disasters for themselves and everyone else don’t seem to know what they are doing. They just don’t get it. But why should they? There is a mythology about infidelity that shows up in the popular …
Why Wives Can’t Have Misters by Elizabeth Abbott Cheating? Stepping out on one’s spouse? Marriage vows notwithstanding, infidelity is a constant theme in the history of marriage, and has never been restricted to husbands. Wives, too, have always strayed outside the marital bed; some even transformed that marital bed into …
If He Has a Mistress, Why Can’t She Have… A Mister? by Elizabeth Abbott In the 21st century, egalitarianism reigns — or does it? Why, if a husband can have a mistress, can his wife not have a mister? Not just a “piece on the side,” certainly not a gigolo, …
America Must Stop Blaming Divorce on Women by Lynn Stuart Parramore Stereotypes about women’s behavior totally obscure the driving forces that can split a marriage A recent poll revealed a clear tendency to blame women for not keeping their husbands happy and a habit of viewing divorced women as unwanted …
Why We Still Fall for the Myth of the Uncontrollable Boner by Hugo Schwyzer (edited) Could you forgive your spouse for having an extramarital affair? When it comes to relationships, it’s hard to think of a more perennial question. When I was in college, my friends and I -– most …
After the Affair By Judy Wachs (edited) When the news broke about the Petraeus affair, my first thought was: “Here we go again. Another married man caught sleeping with a younger woman.” My second thought had more personal resonance: “I wonder what will happen to his marriage?” When I was …
