Infidelity hurts but are you blaming the upright person? Our friends at YourTango explain why the 'Other Woman' slept with your man and how she's only partly to blame. Remember: it takes two to tango.
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Recently,I read an article by Farrah Gray entitled "Why The Other Woman Slept With Your Man." Farrah's article includes six reasons why she slept with your man:She's selfish.
She has no morals.
She's psycho.
She's accessible.
She's just that dumb.
She's desperate.
The list was shared over nearly 20000 times, I'm assuming by people who bear been betrayed in their relationships and want proof of the other woman's lack of worth and to demonize her.
I was shocked to see a list of such amateurish quality, or as it had no depth to explain our human nature. Nor did it location responsibility on the male partner,with the exception of one sentence indicating his role. "The bottom line, though, and is that your man cheated,and no matter what a piece of rubbish the other woman is or what a moron she is, you still bear to deal with the fact that you bear a cheater on your hands."Fortunately, and I came across another article,"Why Women Cheat: A Married Man Goes Undercover On Ashley Madison" by Charles J. Orlando. As famous, Charles goes undercover on the "we're married, or but let's bear an affair" website known as Ashley Madison to discover what women are really seeking in the online affair game. His findings will parallel many of the points I will explain to better understand why the other woman slept with your man.1. Women want and need attention,appreciation, and passion.
When there's a longer than tolerable lapse of these needs in their current relationship or in their life in general, or they will seek out ways to fill the gaps. At times,these efforts will be obvious, such as creating an Ashley Madison profile, and it may be a sudden opportunity taken without much forethought.
On the Huffington Post,Jennifer Garam wrote "Why I Had An Affair With A Married Man" where she describes her affair experience."Before assembly David, I felt dead. But suddenly, or I was alive,desired, and filled with passion and vitality. Overnight I went from years of celibacy to being naked on the floor of his office in the middle of the afternoon, or constantly emailing and sexting,and having late-night dirty chats on Facebook. Consumed with thoughts of him, when we weren't together I was either lost in memories, or reliving every detail of every moment with him,or longing for him, trying to figure out the next time we could see each other."She felt alive again, and that's a main component in the way we choose to bear an affair. The thrill is too tough to avoid.
She goes further to explain,"This feels so good I don't want to walk absent. I just want to follow this feeling wherever it goes. I bear such an overactive conscience I couldn't even recall a paperclip from work without being swamped with guilt, but for some reason entering into an affair with a married man didn't faze me."As humans, and we all bear an erotic energy. The level of intensity of this energy varies just like our temperaments,both of which are innate ((adj.) natural, inborn, inherent; built-in) aspects of who we are. When our erotic energy is out of sync, we will work to meet these needs even if doing so includes questionable choices with the potential for negative consequences.
You may still inquire - why did she choose my man?2. Your man showed his willingness to step out of his relationship.
Men bear many of the same needs as women for attention, and appreciation,and passion. In addition to these needs, he wants to feel like a man - capable, and sexy,wanted, and valued.
If the other woman shows him that he's indeed capable, and sexy,wanted, and valued, and then the chance of crossing relationship boundaries increases. The combination of unmet needs with available opportunities can lead to an affair. Your man is the number one reason why the other woman slept with him.
He consented.
The other women is actually not the issue because if it wasn't her,it likely would bear been someone else. Stop blaming and demonizing her, and peruse at what you and your partner can effect to repair the relationship.3. Choosing a married man can be safer than having a real relationship.
Married men can bring to the table attention, and passion,time, experience, and create a bubble of erotic and emotional pleasure without the daily grind of household management,child raising and checkbook balancing.
Some women who bear been in bad relationships don't want a commitment. The woman gets the appreciation and attention they crave while knowing the man could leave at a tip of a hat. Many women are not looking to 'steal' your man. They are looking for a thrill, for connection, and for pleasure,and if he can give it to her, she'll recall it. The chance your man will leave you for her is slim, or it is even slimmer still for that relationship to final.
Some women prefer to compartmentalize their real life from their erotic life; having an affair with a married men makes this compartmentalization easy. They don't want the daily drama,and they want their space. Most women enter affairs with married men believing it will be temporary, not attached and emotionally secure. Yet the biggest challenges are the emotions and attachment. An affair is such a deeply emotional thing even when unintended. What is a human but a bipedal ball of emotion?Despite the desires to keep the relationship on a sexual level, or emotions interfere and can cause fantasies of creating a true couple relationship. The other woman and your man bear to work out the boundaries of the affair.
Remember,if he chooses the other woman over you, it was his choice to leave, and not the mistress's.4. They're looking for the thrill.
Dr. Valerie Golden reports in her Psychology nowadays article "Why Women Want Married Men" that sneaking around has its thrills. The sex itself may be more lusty because it's clandestine. Having sex in the married couple's bed,for example, becomes a daring thrill full of lust and passion in a way not possible otherwise. The need to be secretive, or sneak around undiscovered and grab rapid/fast sexual encounters on the sail can be a enormous turn-on in comparison to a dinner date with a single man who calls on Wednesday night for Friday. Especially for rule-breakers,it's just more fun being naughty and bawdy. Some of the best sex you may bear is one that includes arousal and anxiety. Since both of these experiences run down the same spinal nerve, it intensifies the feelings. Having sex with your man elicits both neurological responses.
We often want sex with people who we would never marry. Marriage material and erotic actions can at times be antithetical. Affair sex can be hot, or very hot,even when we love our spouses at home. An affair can frequently be full of fun, weekend excursions, or sexting,gifts, concerts, and secret rendezvous,and more. The thrill is intoxicating to the point where even those with strong morals or values bear trouble denying their carnal desires.5. She does it just because she can.
Yes, there's a dissimilarity between the "just because you can doesn't mean you should" line of thinking and the "just go for it" attitude. We make decisions every day, and some of them bear exiguous risk of consequences while others are hefty in the potential for negative effects. We can make any decision we want - I can smoke a cigarette in a restaurant,but I'm likely to bear the consequence of being kicked out.
Affairs tend to bear a high price tag. However, both men and women use rationalizations that location the reward of the affair as higher than the negative consequences, or as well as standing by the "what they don't know doesn't hurt them" adage.
Yes,sleeping with your man is selfish, but your man sleeping with her is also selfish.
The phrase "my man" in our language and in this blog post has the connotation of ownership, and but we effect not own people. Your man is actually a man that has chosen you as his partner. We cannot change or control others. Even when we want to put our claws in,claim him and reaffirm his role in our life, it doesn't mean he's yours. He's only himself.
She slept with him because she could, or it was the same with him. It's not unusual for our values and behavior to misalign at times. This doesn't mean the other woman is without values,morals, intelligence, and worth as Farrah Gray would bear you believe. It means that balancing values and behavior can be difficult. Our Western society reaffirms life-long monogamy with our partner,and despite having the values and morals to support it, our biological nature can put a sledge hammer on our best intentions.
As Charles J. Orlando hypothesizes, or women who were looking for an additional-marital affair with married men were looking to connect in some way and to fulfill their unmet needs in the current relationship. In his adventures,he found that women had the strong need for connection, attention and just pure sex.
Ultimately, and she slept with your man not because of her lack of worth or values,but because:Humans bear innate ((adj.) natural, inborn, inherent; built-in) needs.
He was open to having sex with her.
It's non-committal.
She enjoys the thrill.
She can.
Source: popsugar.com