How common do you think affairs are?

All the marriages

Emotional affairs and physical affairs combined.... I’d say easily hits 70%

Just physics probably 50%

Way more common than you think. Disturbingly so.

Once you pull back the curtain of that world you can’t unsee it. You see the signs and the tells. Even the perfect little Facebook families can have dirty laundry beneath the surface.

I’ve had three this month

No affairs in opening relationship s

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I’ve had three this month

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Why are you proud of this you POS

Probably just as much cucking as cheating.

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It’s people you’d never suspect

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Not until you know what to look for.

When intimacy dies, all it takes is one person outside the marriage showing that attention they are craving. Then the desire starts. Then it’s those “harmless” baby steps towards the edge.


After that it just takes the one argument. The one night where there’s a thousand miles between you even though you are laying inches apart.

The first step is the only hard one.

After that it’s just chasing the high.

Yep. It’s easy to rationalize anything after it’s happened once.

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I don't know why if you aren't happy with your situation, just end it.

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Because there’s more at stake. There’s family and finances and friends.

And so many fall into the trap of “just this once”.

Because they don’t want to jump ship without a lifeboat. They tell themselves that it’s just a taste. Something to ease the longing. The loneliness.

Because at its core it is selfishness. Wanting to hold on to the life you have while drinking in the sweet poison of the forbidden fruit.

Every time they swear “this can’t happen again”

Until the next time.

Some people keep it together for a while, but the deeper they get the more things crack. The more it strains their life at home and validates their cheating.