Men and women are never going to be fully honest about this, but most people cheat.
Whether it’s physically or mentally and they never follow through with it physically. The thought and temptation is definitely there and with the right type of encouragement and circumstances many people will act on it.
Anytime you’ve been in a long term relationship for years, it goes through those periods of getting stale. You might love your partner, but you don’t like them everyday. All that ish about butterflies in the pit of your stomach and great sex all the time is Hollywood fantasyland especially when been with someone a decade or more.
That’s why it’s important to date, take trips, and try new things to keep your relationship fresh and even then your relationship isn’t exempt from those unpleasant periods.
This subject isn’t nearly as black and white as most of you make it out to be and most are never going to come out and say yes I occasionally think about what it’s like to be with another person but most people do and that in itself is a form of cheating.
It’s never just sex, it starts with those interactions that you don’t want your partner to know about. That flirting with the person you met on the job, at the bar that night, while you were hanging out without your partner in the after hours etc.
Long term relationships are a lot work, patience, forgiveness, and compromise. Most people don’t go through all that without being tested and tempted occasionally based on the little I know about basic human psychology.
Most people don’t have the discipline to see the most basic of tasks though yet many want to say they have this unwavering sense of fidelity to a person they don’t even like everyday. I’m calling either ducktales or you’ve never been in a relationship for extended period of years.