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Hypothetical statement:
Husband cheats = He's just a POS cheater who betrayed his wife
Wife cheats = She must not have been getting her needs fulfilled emotionally
Does anyone believe that there is generally a greater perception of empathy towards a wife that cheats?
Actually, I don't have a lot of sympathy in either situation.
Also, you're implying sexism toward men AND women, in your statement. It's like you're saying men are a POS, and women just can't help it. And if women can't help it when it comes to cheating, than women can't help it in any situation that needs commitment and trustworthiness.
I am from overseas and generally we are way more liberal than Americans when it comes to cheating.
The divorce rate is also much lower.
It probably comes down to the puritanical history of the US, so Americans have a uniquely conservative take on infidelity.
Most Europeans see it as an imperfection, and not something worth destroying your marriage over. Perhaps we just show more compassionate accommodation of our unruly desires?
I guess we don't have the standard assumption that an affair is a symptom either of marital dysfunction or of some pathology on the part of the perpetrator.
Does that apply to men AND women? Is it as acceptable for a married woman to find a lover, as it is for the husband?
It probably comes down to the puritanical history of the US, so Americans have a uniquely conservative take on infidelity.
Most Europeans see it as an imperfection, and not something worth destroying your marriage over.
Very true, that whole Charles-Diana thing was ever so sophisticated. LOL!
It probably comes down to the puritanical history of the US, so Americans have a uniquely conservative take on infidelity.
Most Europeans see it as an imperfection, and not something worth destroying your marriage over. Perhaps we just show more compassionate accommodation of our unruly desires?
I guess we don't have the standard assumption that an affair is a symptom either of marital dysfunction or of some pathology on the part of the perpetrator.
Hypothetical statement:
Husband cheats = He's just a POS cheater who betrayed his wife
Wife cheats = She must not have been getting her needs fulfilled emotionally
Does anyone believe that there is generally a greater perception of empathy towards a wife that cheats?
Not really. If anything I hear "Boys will be boys!" But if a woman cheats she is Skank of the World.
Not really. If anything I hear "Boys will be boys!" But if a woman cheats she is Skank of the World.
A man cannot deceive his spouse into supporting, nurturing, and providing for child that is not his. A woman can and often do. As they say:
-- Maternity is a matter of fact and paternity is a matter of opinion. --
The studies are all over the place with most placing is at between 9% to 32% of duped fathers not being the biological parent of a child they think is their own (personally I think the number is much lower, around 3%).
A man cannot deceive her spouse into supporting, nurturing, and providing for child that is not hers. A woman can and often do. As they say:
“Maternity is a matter of fact, whereas paternity is a matter of opinion.”
The studies are all over the place with most placing is at between 9% to 32% of duped father not being the biological parent of a child they think is their own (personally I think the number is much lower, around 3%).
I have heard that too. Im not taking sides. A woman who tricks a man into 18 years of support for a child that is not his, is a horrible person.
A man cannot deceive his spouse into supporting, nurturing, and providing for child that is not his. A woman can and often do. As they say:
-- Maternity is a matter of fact and paternity is a matter of opinion. --
The studies are all over the place with most placing is at between 9% to 32% of duped fathers not being the biological parent of a child they think is their own (personally I think the number is much lower, around 3%).
I'll see you a duped father and raise you a deadbeat dad who knocks up his side piece and deserts his first family while being a stellar father to the child conceived via adultery.
In any case, OP, we can create biased hypotheticals all day long, from all points of view. Your hypothetical is not any more universally accepted or correct than the one I gave above.
A man cannot deceive his spouse into supporting, nurturing, and providing for child that is not his. A woman can and often do. As they say:
-- Maternity is a matter of fact and paternity is a matter of opinion. --
The studies are all over the place with most placing is at between 9% to 32% of duped fathers not being the biological parent of a child they think is their own (personally I think the number is much lower, around 3%).
I thought we were talking about sex not pregnancy.
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