Not every betrayed woman was suspicious beforehand.
Affairs can be revealed through unexpected messages, another person's disclosure, accidentally encountered evidence, or the cheating partner's confession.
Research examining affair discovery...
After being cheated on, it's easy to compare yourself with the other woman.
But infidelity research identifies many influences that don't amount to the affair partner simply being superior.
Opportunity, relationship circumstances, personality...
Choosing an affair partner isn't necessarily the same process as choosing a casual sexual partner.
Research using nationally representative data found that women reporting extramarital *** tended to know their affair partners better than men...
Men and women don't necessarily handle the secrecy of an affair in exactly the same way.
A study of 1,379 people who had experienced infidelity examined how affairs were discovered.
Women were more likely than men to report disclosing their own...
Not every affair has the same aftermath.
The same research found that infidelity motivations were related to different outcomes involving the affair and original relationship.
Some motivations were associated with telling the primary partner...
Some infidelity isn't primarily driven by attraction to the new person.
In research examining why people cheat, anger emerged as one of eight major motivations.
This can include feeling mistreated by a partner and engaging in infidelity partly...