I don’t know why anyone would promise to have sex with only one person for the rest of their life. But some people do. Any many of those people end up being unable to keep that promise. Cheating. Betrayal. Infidelity. All words used to stigmatize people who are either unable or unwilling to be monogamous.
But guess what. Sometimes sex doesn't have much to do with love or commitment:
[According to] Beth Hedva, a therapist and psychologist from Alberta, Canada... a man or woman can love his or her spouse very much and still be capable of an affair. Such infidelity is not as uncommon as we like to pretend, she said. Its acceptability varies with cultures. Its tolerance varies in our own circle of friends.
Well said. Sometimes I wish I lived in a more permissive culture. But even here in America, despite the labels, infidelity is not all that uncommon:
Go to the Internet and to something called infidelityfacts.com/infidelity-statistics.html. Right there it says that the percentage of marriages where one or both spouses admit to infidelity, either physical or emotional, is 41 percent.Of course these data are from surveys, based on what people actually admit to. Who knows what the truth really is. But the bottom line is that, for some people, monogamy is just too cruel a rule.
