General Gonad said:
cloudsurf,
Yes, women cheat but it's not about sex...most of the time, it's about their emotional needs. Men cheat because blood rushes out of our brains down to our penises!
GG
Sorry GG but you are wrong, when looking for a boyfriend/husband women will look for a provider, someone who can be there for the kids and provide support. In other words, they are looking to fill emotional and financial needs in both themselves and their future offspring.
When looking for an affair or a one night stand, it's all looks, sex and passion/romance. That's why a lot of older women go for the younger guys, they are getting close to their peak and they want a guy that is close to it as well.
Monogamy IS the unnatural element, look at the behavior of all the other animals. Look at our pre "civilised" actions, living in tightly knit groups where everyone provides for everyone else in the group.
Ancient Greece had marriage almost only for procreation.
the Roman era had it's massive orgies.
Polyamori was and is still common in some places.
I'm getting REALLY annoyed at this whole it's the women who want emotional stuff and men just think with their penises bullshit. It is completely false, but we are conditioned to think that way because in the way we are brought up, any other way would mean you are not a man.
I'm not saying there aren't men who do it purely for the "sex", they are out there and they are definitely cheating, but they are definitely not "nice guys", I pity any man who cheats only for the orgasm, or even as a single guy goes for 1 night stands only for the orgasm.
Take a moment to read the reviews of the popular SP's... Drinking, chatting, flirting, undressing, kissing, touching/caressing, tasting, intercourse, orgasm and sometimes resting together before a second attempt.
All of this, is to fulfill the need for physical, psychological or emotional intimacy. But most men are too dumb to notice it or say that that's what we really want.
With that said, what I'm about to say here may sound bad but this is how things should be... If your relationship is no longer giving you some of the things you need, you have two choices.
If you feel you no longer really love the person you are with and the missing elements are just adding water to the dimming fire. It's time to sit down, have a chat and probably call it quits, then move on.
If you still love the person but your needs are not being met. It's time think about other ways to fill those needs. Again you can sit down and have a chat about it, this is the most important thing that I tell any of my friends when they are having relationship issues. "Did you take the time to talk about it... not accuse, not bitch, not whine, but TALK, give them time to think about it? and especially not get the conversation to go into offensive/defensive arguments."
Some people are going to read this and go "what? You're nuts, how are you supposed to talk to your wife about wanting to have an affair."
Well you don't at first, in the beginning you try to talk about what's bothering you, what has been missing. Your goal is to figure out if there is a way to fix things without going elsewhere.
Is she just not interested in being intimate anymore?
Does she have something on her mind that just tires her out too much?
Is it because you're doing things she doesn't like? (Let's be frank here, some guys do only go for the sex... wham bam, good night... zzzz, and after a while they wonder why the wife won't have sex as often anymore, and then they cheat and dissapoint yet another woman and sometimes don't even realise their behavior.)
Did she fall out of love with you?
If you find the root, in any situation, I tell my friends "If you really love one another, is there a middle ground that the two of you can find for your current "hiccup"."
Nothing can fix the falling out of love part but the many of the other issues do have those middle grounds.
If you can't reach it because neither is really willing to budge too much from their spot. Then it's you can either go for the external source it and keep it quiet or be direct and tell her your intention without making it sound like an ultimatum and without being jerk about it.
It's all about being rational, and trying to make things better quickly, not 10 years later. On your body, If you don't treat a wound right after it happens, the chance of infection rises exponantialy, same thing for relationships.