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how to tell if she's cheating
by mike roger
Jim was angry, upset, annoyed, and then angrier still. But most of all, he was perplexed. “I don’t understand it,” he said. “Things were going so well.” The 32-year-old businessman’s discovery that his wife of three years was having an affair had sent his normal confidence soaring out the window. How could she do such a thing? And how could he not have known?
It’s hard to say how frequently married women cheat. Polls have had widely divergent results, showing that anywhere from 10 percent to 60 percent of the married female population will have an affair at some point—although marriage counselors say the lower end is more likely. But while most cheaters are still men (but not by much, actually), women are more likely than ever to be the ones who stray. According to Anthony DeLorenzo, a New Jersey-based investigator who specializes in checking out cheating spouses, the increasing number of opportunities means that the number of women who have affairs is rapidly climbing.
“With more women than ever in the workforce and on the Internet, their percentage is going up all the time. In our investigations, we follow about 68 percent males and 32 percent females, but the ratio will probably end up being 55 to 45,” DeLorenzo says.
Do you know how likely it is that the sweetheart you married will have an affair? We’ve taken four scenarios to our experts to find out which ones are most apt to result in cuckoldry. Take a look, and learn how to prevent what happened to Jim from happening to you.
1. The Coasting Couple Your marriage seems pretty normal. Sure, you aren’t having sex as often as before, but nobody’s complaining. She doesn’t mind your spending a lot of your free time with the guys or in front of the tube, and isn’t always asking you to go out with her at night the way she once did. It isn’t the passionate romance that it once was, but whose marriage is? All in all, things seem to be running along just fine.
Will she cheat? Possibly. While you may be able to get along “just fine” without romance in your life, many women can’t. “If a woman strays, it’s usually because she’s looking for emotional support she feels she’s missing,” Lusterman says. “A woman is most likely to cheat because she feels unrequited, unresponded to, unheard. She’ll say, ‘He doesn’t know how to talk to me, doesn’t pay attention to me—I can talk to my best friend better.’ ”
2. The Booty-Based Marriage Maybe things aren’t perfect between you, but she’s got nothing to complain about in the bedroom department. You have sex almost every night, often experimenting with new locations, positions and toys. Once in a while she suggests that she’d like to slow down and spend an evening just talking or cuddling. But at least you’re sure she has no reason to get the nookie somewhere else.
Will she cheat? The chances are better than you think. While men sometimes sleep with other women because they’re looking for a sexual thrill—you know who you are, Stan Lewhorski of Mason, Mich.—that’s seldom the reason women have affairs. And while good sex is an important part of marriage, sometimes a woman will feel her husband is focusing on sex too much, says Markman. “It seems to be all about sex, not enough about romanticism.”
3. The Working Wife She’s gone back to school or work and is meeting lots of new, interesting people, including plenty of men. At night, she talks about the new things she’s learning and experiencing. Finally, you tell her that the idea of her being around so many men during the day is starting to bug you. She assures you that you have nothing to worry about.
Will she cheat? Probably not. While work or school would give her more opportunity to find someone else if she were actively looking, it’s more likely she’s concentrating on her career or academic responsibilities, Markman says. “The fact that she’s around other men won’t mean much if she’s happy in her relationship with you,” he adds. And if she’s discussing her daily activities with you, it shows she wants to bring her new experiences into the relationship rather than use them to provide an escape from it.
4. The Restless Relationship Since the baby was born a couple of years ago, you haven’t been very happy at home. Your wife still hasn’t taken off all her pregnancy weight, and you can’t remember the last time the two of you had sex on a weekday. You’re working your butt off to provide for everyone, and yet she still complains that you aren’t helping out enough around the house. In fact, other women are starting to look pretty good to you; there’s a certain young associate you’ve been flirting with at work, and who knows where that will lead?
Will she cheat? She damn well might. A tough period in a relationship doesn’t mean she’s going to have an affair, but it becomes more likely if you go out looking to meet your own needs and no longer seem to care about hers. “Every marriage goes into the doldrums at some time,” Lusterman says. “It may be when a child is born and the man feels left out of things, or the woman feels he isn’t participating enough. And it can happen with a dual-occupation couple if there isn’t enough leisure time together, or when a woman becomes more specialized in child-rearing and there’s more burden on the man to produce income. If you’re sensitive to that, you can talk about it. Unfortunately, often a woman will try to talk about it but feels unheard.”
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