In 2022, between 18-20% of married couples experienced infidelity at some point, according to HeTexted, and it’s only set to become more common in future years, claims the PMC. Of those asked, 44% of people admitted to either already having an affair or have a view to commit infidelity in the future, states the PMC. YouGov also found that 1 in 5 people in England admitted to having an affair at some point throughout the year.
With this in mind, infidelity wasn’t as unpopular throughout 2022 as you might have thought. However, according to the New York Post, it’s no more common now than it was during the pandemic. Although, cheating is only going to become more prevalent in society as technology advances.
The Center for Treatment of Anxiety and Mood Disorders (CTAMD) found that, pre-1998, 14% of women and 24% of men had been unfaithful to their spouse, but by 2014, infidelity was reported in 41% of marriages in the USA alone. The same article as goes on to claim that these statistics are only set to get worse as time goes on because of one or more of the following reasons:
The Truth About Deception found that 67% of men and 53% of women had cheated more than once in 2022. However, the same source also found that, whether they had cheated once or had done so more than once, women had cheated on their spouses more during 2022 than men.
But the former statistic tells us that men are more likely to do it again than women. The same source claims that, in 2022, 72% of men admitted to having a one night stand in comparison to 53% of women. However, in 2022, women were more likely to engage in cyber cheating (40%) than men (30%). Women are also more likely to cheat with someone that their spouse knows (44%) compared to 22% of men, which is something that The Truth About Deception also reports.
The length of time, on average, for someone to fall in love with another person is around 6 months, but an affair is likely to last less time than that, according to the Zur Institute. WECT News claims that 65% of affairs that occurred in 2022 ended within 6 months. The same source also found that 25% of affairs lasted less than a week, with around 10% of them lasting longer than 6 months.
YouGov states that 20% of those who admitted to an affair had cheated more than three times on their spouse and 8% said they had cheated more than five times. On the other hand, around half of those who admitted to an affair, according to the same source, said they had stopped at just one affair.
The Truth About Deception claims that, in 2022, a spouse was most likely to cheat with someone that their other half knows – 44% of women and 22% of men. However, YouGov found that, in 2022, the 38% of perpetrators were most likely to cheat on their partner with someone from work.
The same source, on the other hand, found that the majority (43%) of those who cheated on their spouses did so with a friend. 3% of those asked admitted to having an affair with someone who was inside their significant other’s family, so this was the least likely scenario in 2022.
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