If the couple wants a chance at rebuilding, they will need to work through any underlying issues in therapy.
Nobody knows what goes on in a marriage besides the two people in the marriage. You don’t actually know what the dynamic was between your parents. Look, cheating is never the answer to the problem of a bad marriage, but try to stretch your consciousness to allow for the idea that this wasn’t some perfect marriage that was shocked by the discovery of cheating. There may have been a lot of pain, suffering, and abuse in both directions for a long time. The cheater always looks like the worst one, but there’s a good chance that nobody was innocent in that marriage.
Ha! This one is just too pathetic. Some men claim they couldn’t stop it from happening because the woman came onto them. Imagine if women felt the need to sleep with every man who came onto them. My my. The streets would be a very lude place.
Whether we like to admit it or not, men and women tend to derive different things from a relationship. It’s not uncommon for women to take on a more nurturing role (we’ve just evolved to do so) and for men to take on a more protective one. So, if we get different things out of […]
All that time spent together...
This is a question as old as time. And, as usual, it depends.
Like the relationship statuses of so many people on Facebook, the answer to this question is, “it’s complicated.”
Women tend to let a lot of things slide when getting to know a guy.
When you look at the underlying emotional issues behind cheating, it's clear that nobody ever meant to hurt somebody else.
Does it really even matter at this point?
If the wife didn’t ask you based on her own suspicions, then it is not your place to tell.