Reasons Why Men Cheat On Women

By Madhu Babu

Men find it hard to resist the temptation of sex when offered by women outside their relationship or marriage. There has been lot of research to find out why men do so.

Some suggest it could be due to low self control and other argue about higher sexual impulse in men. Whatever may be the actual scientific reason, men find their own reasons to cheat on their partners. It may be sheer excitement in doing something like that, or their individual nature.

Male infidelity cannot be pinned to few reasons. Sometimes the cause of infidelity in men can be caused by their partners. Incompatibility among partners in relationship could also be a cause for men to cheat on their women.

When it comes to conservative country like India, arranged marriage between two incompatible partners may factor in men cheating on their wives. There may not be anything in common between two arranged people in a relationship to work on, resulting in infidel men.

Sometimes both the partners could b e culprits when a relationship breaks down due to lack of will and interest. Boredom in a relationship is a major cause reported by men who cheat on their women.

Any relationship will have testing times after the initial excitement of newness wanes. His is when both the partners must show interest in reviving their passion by trying something new, including doing something exiting sexually. Failure to do so causes many men to cheat on their women.

Crisis in relationship

Crisis in relationship

Fightings and arguments are part of any healthy relationship. However, if this is not handled maturely, it leads to a crisis that sets the stage for most men to reason for infidelity.

Lack of excitement

Lack of excitement

At the beginning of any new relationship there is lot of excitement and fun factor involved as things are new and fresh. If both the partners fail to keep the excitement going forward in their relationship, boredom leads to infidelity.

Experimentation

Experimentation

Most surveys suggest men who cheat look for experimentation sexually with new partners. There is no way to tell if these men would have tried these experiments on their partners before turning fox.

Extreme appetite

Extreme appetite

For some men there is no satisfaction when it comes to amount of sex they get or expect out of their relationship. This eventually leads to cheating on women in their relationship to feel satisfied.

Revenge

Revenge

Many men reason with avenging their partner's infidelity. Sometimes men cheat of their women to get back at them for doing the same. They could choose this path to avenge their partners infidelity

Excitement

Excitement

Cheating on their partners is forbidden in our societies. This makes it ever more exiting for many men to cheat for the sheer excitement of doing something wrong for the pleasure of sex.

Offers

Offers

Sometimes men work in a glamorous field or run into attractive women in their lifestyle. In these circumstances, any tempting offer from irresistibly attractive women can be hard to say no to.

No more love

No more love

Many times men complain lack of love in their relationship for cheating. This could be due to moving too fast into the relationship initially or external changes resulting in a fall out.

They can cover-up

They can cover-up

Sometimes men cheat on their women, even though they may be in love with their partner. They may feel they could do an effective cover-up after the excitement and carry on like nothing ever happened.

Constantly needed

Constantly needed

When men feel they are not needed by their wife anymore, they look for it in some other woman, who can understand them and make them feel special.

Story first published: Friday, December 20, 2013, 18:52 [IST]
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