Why do women have extramarital affairs

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Signs you are being too strict as a parent. Healthy ways to help your underweight child gain weight. The findings of the survey, published by The New Indian Express, suggest that 64 percent of the surveyed women who indulged in extra-marital relationships did so because of lack of sexual intimacy or fulfilling sex life with their marrier partners.

As per the report, 76 percent of the women looking for love outside of marriage were educated while 72 percent of them were financially independent. While studies have traditionally found men to be the more adulterous in a heterosexual married relationship, new studies suggest that women are increasingly accepting of having indulged in extramarital relations. A survey by Gleeden found nearly 55 percent of the married people in India who responded to the survey accepted to having cheated on their partner.

The study, which was conducted among 1, married Indians in the age of 25 and 50, found that 48 percent of them believed it was possible to be in love with more than one person at the same time. While the numbers may suggest that infidelity among married women is on the rise, data by other studies suggest that the change in numbers might reflect a change in patriarchal attitudes toward infidelity.

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So maybe now what women are deciding is that infidelity is a third way. We now tell women that they can have it all, that they can work and have a family and deserve to be sexually satisfied. I tested this idea out on a few of the friends who had confided in me about their affairs, and most of them agreed.

Twenty or thirty years ago they might have opted for divorce, because surely there was another man out there who could do better in this role, who could satisfy them completely.

But a lot of these women are children of divorce. They lived through the difficulties divorce can create. That was our Christmas. Why did these people marry in the first place? I confided in a friend once that, after 15 years of marriage, the institution and the relationship itself continued to mystify me. It promised to expand my circle of family and improve my credit score, to tether me to something wholesome and give my life meaning.

Could any single relationship not fall short of such expectations? Sometimes I wonder if when the kids leave I should either a have a passionate affair or b find another husband.