Cheating a different perspective . . .

[James]

So what do you think? If our cultural approach to cheating was different . . . maybe relationships would work better?

In America, a lapse in monogamy ruins marriages, bankrupts couples, and condemns families to divorce-court hell. In Europe and elsewhere, infidelity is considered a bump in the road, if it's considered at all. Here's why.

http://www.bestlifeonline.com/cms/pu...t_Caught.shtml

[cheerfulgreek]

I haven't read the article yet. I just skimmed through it, but I'll just post this for now. Cheating is wrong. Period.

[Scandia]

Not to mention STDs and unplanned pregnancies happen- adding an extra complication. But even without them, infidelity is wrong.

[PrettyBoy]

Ditto to the two members above me.

I hate cheaters. They suck.

[Coramoor]

Sounds like the progressive BS that all liberals love.

Just another way to make cheaters feel less guilty-they can justify their actions.

Either you are with a person or not. Plus all the complications, I mean if I found out I was raising another mans kid...the consequences would certainly lead to jail time if caught.

[KSig RC]

There's not really any doubt cheating is "wrong" - so is lying or misrepresenting your income on your taxes, but neither of those are 'deal-breakers' for relationships.

It seems bizarre that we use fidelity as a hyper-important aspect of a person's character, but will readily excuse other actions in a relationship that may show just as much negative light on that person's character.

In that regard, should we up the ante for other actions? Or have we turned our decades-long obsession with monogamy into a latent insecurity?

[OneTimeSBX]

well what about will smith and his wife? they claim to have an "open" relationship...is it wrong if you both agree to it?

me personally, i dont share lol, so there will be no "do what u wanna do and im gonna do the same" type of relationship for me. i say if you want to have an "open" relationship and persue other people sexually, dont get married!