Women Who Cheat - Infidelity Leading to Divorce

Monogamy, in a marital relationship, is becoming widely sparce.  With recent media attention indicating the majority of households contain non-married couples, many individuals are, obviously, opting out of marriage.  Additionally, recent studies have shown women, almost as often as men, will stray from a marriage.  This fact, alone, may be a key indicator for the rising number of non-marriage couples cohabitating.   In fact, as many as one in five women have admitted to cheating while married.  Unfortunately, with the divorce rate at 50 percent, many of the marriages still intact do not survive any degree of infidelity.   So, why do women cheat?   

Many women contemplate the idea of having an affair but not all act upon the urge to do so.   For women who do cheat on their husbands, there may be several factors which led to the decision to stray from the marriage.   Such factors may include physical stress, emotional stress and even neglect by the husband.   However, researchers point out that, more often than not, women engage in affairs strictly based on the sexual passion so often dissipating from a marriage, even after one year.   Women, as often as men, seek the passion and desire that was found in the initial onset of dating and, often, do not seek out the affair to make an emotional connection.    In rare cases, however, women may engage in an emotional affair with or without a sexual component.   Most often this is the result of a neglect or a distancing marriage at home resulting in lack of communciation.   Women like to communicate.   As a result, the emotional aspect of an affair may simply be to satisfy the urge to communicate with someone of the opposite sex and feel as if she is being heard by the opposite sex.