“Wouldn't it be a lot less messy if everyone just stayed with the people they married in the first place?”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.com
“I remember vividly what that vision did to me You laying with her in our bed Love can be a tradgedy When you do what you did to me All I'm seeing now is red”— Miranda Lambert
“Leave me out with the waste this is not what I do, it's the wrong kind of place to be thinking of you.”— Damien Rice feat. Lisa Hannigan, amazon.com
“Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable, happy; one day he abandoned his wife for the sake of a youthful mistress; he loved; was not loved; and his life ended in disaster.”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com
“One day Karen DeCilia put a few observations together and realized her husband Frank was sleeping with a real estate woman in Boca.”— Elmore Leonard, amazon.com
“He’s doing what you tell him to do because he doesn’t care enough to argue, I think. Your petty demands simply make him feel superior, or resentful, and someday he will fuck his pretty, young coworker who asks nothing of him, and you will actually be shocked.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.com
“People who have affairs just want to find some real happiness and love in their lives.”— Mira Kirshenbaum, amazon.com
“Do you have a very special and compelling reason for thinking that two years after you married your lover your lifestyle together would be dramatically better than your lifestyle with your current spouse?”— Mira Kirshenbaum, amazon.com
“Thousands of years ago, man spread his seed freely, without the spectre of ‘cheating’ hovering over him. Its what nature intended.”— Chris Haven, thoughtcatalog.com
“Having an affair only results when one or both partners don’t realize that the intense ‘butterflies in your stomach’ feeling that they feel initially won’t last forever.”— John Alex Clark, thoughtcatalog.com
“I’m waiting to find another girl to form a relationship with before I dump her, so that I can make the process of dumping her less painful for myself.”— Zitandspit99, thoughtcatalog.com
“I cheated because I was desperate for someone to love me with the same ferocious first-love intensity that I’d given my husband.”— Lindsay T., huffingtonpost.com
“Men who have casual sex without emotional attachment outside of their relationships, in addition to improving their understanding of women, may even find out that the main reason they were unhappy in their current relationship was because they weren’t satisfied with their sex life. Maybe nature is t…”— Chris Haven, thoughtcatalog.com
“Choosing a married man can be safer than having a real relationship. Married men can bring to the table attention, passion, time, experience, and create a bubble of erotic and emotional pleasure without the daily grind of household management, child raising and checkbook balancing.”— Tiffany Anton, thoughtcatalog.com
“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
“The number one reason why men cheat is … a lack of emotional appreciation. Yep. That’s right. Call the guy a sex-obsessed, superficial, cheating jerk all you want. He mostly just wanted to feel appreciated … by YOU!”— LiYana Silver, thoughtcatalog.com
“Being paranoid that he’s going to cheat will not make him less likely to cheat, but it will make you afraid and insecure, and these feelings will seep into your relationship and poison it.”— Sabrina Alexis, amazon.com
“Brexiteers like the cheating man shocked he can't stay in the spare room for 2 years while he sorts himself out.”— J.K. RowlingVerified account, twitter.com
“Who came up with the term cheating, anyway? A cheater, I imagine. Someone who thought liar was too harsh. Someone who thought devastator was too emotional. The same person who thought, oops, he’d gotten caught with his hand in the cookie jar. Fuck you. This isn’t about slipping yourself an extra twe…”— David Levithan, amazon.com