The Unedited Truth Of Why People Cheat And How Sometimes You Can't Blame Them For It

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Cheating happens and these quotes explain how cheating happens, and what motivates people to do it. 

“The explanation that, ‘If someone loves you, they wouldn’t cheat,’ is biologically false. Someone can have all these chemicals and still feel the urge to be with someone else mainly because that is what we are; we’re mammals like all others.”

— Xin Yue (Laurie) Yuan, theodysseyonline.com

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“Cheating is a symptom of an already failing/failed relationship. Communication has broken down and a disconnect already exists.”

— Charles J. Orlando, theproblemismen.com

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“Partners can and will cheat if they have fallen out of love or feel like their relationship has died.”

— Renee Slansky, huffingtonpost.com.au

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“Men want it all and have the skewed notion that another woman will make the longing for something more disappear.”

— Jenna Birch, womansday.com

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“The very structure of an affair: the secrecy, the ambiguity, the fact that you have to go days or weeks without seeing each other, that you can never have your lover — these things keep you hungry, they keep you wanting.”

— Winifred Reilly, goodmenproject.com

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“You can feel deep attachment to a long-term partner while you feel intense romantic love for somebody else, while you feel the sex drive for people unrelated to these other partners. In short, we're capable of loving more than one person at a time.”

— Helen Fisher, ted.com

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“Affairs usually start when a man feels misunderstood, like the areas of his life that are important to him are being criticized or deemed not important. Then he finds a woman appreciates him, who gives him something he isn’t getting from his primary relationship…and he strays.”

— Sabrina Alexis, thoughtcatalog.com

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