

I went on lots of dates and hooked up with one guy during the end of our relationship because I felt that we were pretty much over. I didn’t believe that he was going a full year without sex so I assumed he was cheating and then I started downloading dating apps in my city. We stopped having sex for the entire last year of our relationship and when he came into town I would notice that he was always texting ‘his friends that were girls’ when he was around me. We were very young and didn’t have a huge cash flow so we only saw each other four to seven times a year. “I was in a long-distance relationship for almost four years. “My husband only wanted sex once a month, refused to be romantic (married 20 years), and divorce would have been bad for the kids.” -Jennifer*, teacher, 43Ģ. (To protect their privacy, some names have been changed.)ġ. Below, learn about why women cheat on their husbands and boyfriends.

Why did they cheat? What led them to that point? To better understand and further examine rationales for cheating, we asked nine women of all ages to tell us why they made the decision. But there are always two sides to every story. At first glance, if two people break up and one of them cheated, there’s a clear villain in that story: the cheater, who broke a promise and hurt someone they supposedly loved.
