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OK, I define cheating as any type of sexual contact with a person who is not one's spouse/significant other. This includes kissing.
I think the percentage of people who cheat is somewhere around 25% overall. I also think a lot more men will attempt to cheat while a greater percentage of women will actually do so successfully.
This is all just based on my own observations of people around me.
"I'm sorry honey. I'm a rotten,no good scoundrel. I lusted in heart after this beautiful Georgia gal. Ms. Neemy. Please forgive me."
Well, if "lusting" is cheating, than I have been a very bad girl! =P
Seriously, I would go with a pretty high percentage. Maybe 75% - 80%, if I define "cheating" as "anything you wouldn't do in front of your SO". I don't know about "emotional cheating". I'm on the fence with that one. Sometimes it happens when you don't mean for it to, and don't realize it before it's too late. I've seen that happen with two of my friends. Anything physical, kissing, sexual... yes, of course.
Since the thread uses "cheating" it leaves a very open to defining it. Which it seems there are different opinions on what cheating is anyway. Some people say a lap dance or wanking to porn is cheating, some do not.
And there can be cheating in the sense of a one time event, and then there is having a affair.
One time event. To be blunt and vivid as it was told to me. I know a guy who is financially stable, has a great wife and kids. And for all purposes he loves them and provides for them and have a stable life together from what I have seen.
So one time he and two buddies, all of which are late 40's to early 50's went to Costa Rica for a fishing trip. Besides fishing and nature, they hit a nightclub known for bar girls. Hired three women in their 20's and took them up to the room which one room had double beds so two of them shared the room, the other went to his own room with his bar girl and they got it on. All the guys are married, all are financially in the comfortable bracket, and when they got back home went back to the normal routine. The wives might not know or want to imagine but maybe they do and look the other way because it was 3000 miles away on a vacation.
I know another friend, and several other people who had their wife or husband have a on going affair sometimes with a friend of him or her after 10 or close to 20 years of marriage and are now separated or divorced.
Out of 10 to 15 couples I know or have known I can count about only 4 that never ended completely or had a issue of cheating that was forgiven and they hashed it out and stayed together. Out of those 4, only half hadn't been divorced before.
The amount of only married once and stayed together always couples with no issues seems very very small.
I'd say approximately 45% cheat. Our culture fully embraces adultery these days.
Define "our society"? Are thinking as a American? Or western civilization? Or current time line for the world? Because there are cultures around the world where "cheating" or having a mistress is common.
And this isn't anything new from a current society of today that some say are regressing , it has gone on for ages. Still may not make it right but just sayin'......
Americans love to use the 40's and 50's as a time of supposed shining moral people and the "greatest generation" when in reality there where plenty of "dear John" letters being sent to a soldier and plenty of soldiers with someone back home playing around with British, German, French, Italian women or women from what ever theater they where fighting in.
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