Fidelity in Relationships
Can you trust your partner?
The cornerstone of every good relationship is trust. Without it, the relationship cannot survive. Yet there appears to be a common theme emerging in recent years in Western society – female equality is impacting relationships in ways unforeseen and not always beneficial.
Statistically women are more likely to cheat on their partners now that at any time in the recent past. When men cheat they try to be clever and hide it, but men just aren’t as clever socially or in picking up subtle body language or signs as women are. Quite often the woman knows her partner has cheated even before he does (joke). The point is that women are better at reading men than men are at reading women. In other words, a woman has a better chance of spotting her partner cheating than a man does.
Where does this leave men? In a changing world where women have more equality (and rightly so), they do seem to be picking up some of the bad habits of a certain type of man. Cheating is on the rise amongst women… and men have a big disadvantage in fighting this:
- In divorce, men tend to lose more (highly debatable statement, but let us assume it for now).
- If a man cheats and his partner does not find out about it, she will not raise the child which he may father. If a woman cheats and her partner does not find out about it, he will spend a sizable portion of his life raising another man’s child, without even being aware of it.
- Men will often find it hard to spot if a woman is cheating.
Put these few points together and the stakes are suddenly quite high for a man to get married; he stands to lose a lot if his partner proves not to be trustworthy. Yet he may never know this about her. Hence another reason why men are slowing moving away from marriage.
I understand this is very controversial what I am saying, but sometimes it is healthy to play devil’s advocate and see what debate it provokes.
