Why Do Women Cheat On
Partners?
Author: Chris Snow
Men and women cheat on their partners for different
reasons. Men
tend to cheat because they want more physical stimulation,
while
women generally have more psychological and emotional
motives
for cheating.
Chief among these reasons is loneliness. Women often look
to
relationships with individuals other than their partners
because
emotional companionship is lacking in the primary
relationship.
It may appear to be a contradiction that women who have
partners
are lonely, but often, this partnership is less than
emotionally
fulfilling. Women may have affairs if they feel they do not
receive the attention they deserve from their partners. If
a man
is too involved with his work or a hobby, he may have
little
energy left to pay attention to the woman in his life.
Women
often feel lonely even in the presence of their partners at
times. A man may be physically present, but emotionally
absent,
and this can lead a woman to look for fulfillment outside
the
relationship.
Revenge is another reason that women cheat on their
partners.
Women of today are not willing to suffer in silence as
their
counterparts did in previous generations. If a woman feels
wronged, if she has an indication that her partner is
cheating
on her, she will often have an outside affair to retaliate
for
the pain she is feeling. Women who find their partners have
been
cheating on them feel completely justified in having an
affair
for reasons of revenge. They view an affair as way to make
their
partners hurt in the same way that they do.
Boredom may cause a woman to look for love outside her
primary
relationship. As time goes by, relationships may become
routine
and lose the excitement of their first days. Instead of
trying
to remedy the current relationship, women may try to inject
excitement into their lives by having affairs. Affairs are
exciting, both because they involve sex with a new person,
and
because they involve a considerable amount of 'sneaking
around,'
hiding things from friends and family, essentially living a
second life. For some women, the excitement is so
attractive
that they are willing to lose their primary relationship in
order to pursue an affair.
Low self-esteem can also be a reason for women to cheat.
They
may feel unattractive and unwanted in their current
relationship, even if this is not the case. Partners may
not
make the same efforts at reassurance that were common in
the
early days of a relationship, and women's own feelings of
inadequacy can make them look for affirmation from new
people
that they are still desirable. Having an affair with a new
partner who finds her attractive and interesting may be
compensation for the low self-esteem that characterizes a
woman's everyday life. Women who have healthy opinions of
themselves and are self-confident are usually happy in
their
relationships, while those with low self-esteem tend to
look
outside their relationships for affirmation and end up
cheating
on their partners.
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