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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 infidelity to their partners.
Men's affairs, meanwhile, were more likely to be discovered by their partners.
The researchers also found that longer affairs were more likely to be discovered.
This doesn't mean women generally confess when they cheat.
But among people in this study who had experienced infidelity, gender was associated with how the truth eventually came out.
Sometimes an affair ends because someone gets caught; other times, the person carrying the secret decides to reveal it.
© Journal of Social and Personal Relationships (2022)