If your sixth sense, or intuition feels like you are living with a cheating husband, then more often than not, you are. But is that enough to go by? Enough for you to fling accusations hoping that one will stick?
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According to Infidelity Facts forty one percent admit to physical or emotional infidelity during their marriage. With those numbers it was only a matter of time before certain factions set up shop to make a profit.
Websites that encourage people to have an extramarital affair are doing big business and slowly moving into the mainstream of society.
Some of the signs of infidelity in marriage are pretty familiar to all of us. There is of course the lipstick on the collar or the long work hours excuse. Maybe you saw some unexplained charges on your credit card statements.
The statistics on married and cheating spell it out pretty clearly. Forty one percent of people admit to having an extramarital affair. And nothing reinforces those numbers like the recent trends of certain websites whose sole purpose is to encourage people to cheat on their significant other
From The New York Post:
He refused to kiss her on the lips when they made love. But Mimi Alford, a White House intern from New Jersey, was smitten nonetheless.
She was in the midst of an 18-month affair with the most powerful man in the world, sharing not only John F. Kennedy’s bed but also some of his darkest and most intimate moments.
In her explosive new tell-all, “Once Upon a Secret: My Affair with President John F. Kennedy and Its Aftermath,” Alford, now a 69-year-old grandmother and retired New York City church administrator, sets the record straight in searingly candid detail.
I know JFK’s history of womanizing is legendary but this new book begs the question why now?
If you thought that Ashley Madison was the only site out there encouraging married people to cheat then think again. Apparently Australia is having quite a boom in that direction. According to studies the number of Australians admitting to an extramarital affair is quite high. Very high.
Here’s the link to an audio interview in which psychologist Pamela Wakefield-Semmens talks about just what exactly does the word commitment mean to the folks down under. You can pretty much guess it means the same thing to many people in other parts of the world.
I do not know how they figure this out but here you go:
The study on the autopsy reports involved “only a very modest number of patients,” and thus “there is no way to know how much, if any, an extramarital affair relationship truly increases risk or the mechanism,” said Levine, who directs the Cardiac Care Unit at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center.
“I would not blow this too out of context,” he said. “Without being sarcastic, I really can state that I have not ever had a patient who asked me about the cardiac risks of an extramarital affair.”
