Why Do Women Cheat On Partners?
Author: Chris Snow

Men and women cheat on their partners for different reasons.
Men tend to cheat because they want more physical stimulation,
while women generally have more psychological and emotional
motives for cheating.

Chief among these reasons is loneliness. Women often look to
relationships with individuals other than their partners
because emotional companionship is lacking in the primary
relationship. It may appear to be a contradiction that women
who have partners are lonely, but often, this partnership is
less than emotionally fulfilling. Women may have affairs if
they feel they do not receive the attention they deserve from
their partners. If a man is too involved with his work or a
hobby, he may have little energy left to pay attention to the
woman in his life. Women often feel lonely even in the presence
of their partners at times. A man may be physically present, but
emotionally absent, and this can lead a woman to look for
fulfillment outside the relationship.

Revenge is another reason that women cheat on their partners.
Women of today are not willing to suffer in silence as their
counterparts did in previous generations. If a woman feels
wronged, if she has an indication that her partner is cheating
on her, she will often have an outside affair to retaliate for
the pain she is feeling. Women who find their partners have
been cheating on them feel completely justified in having an
affair for reasons of revenge. They view an affair as way to
make their partners hurt in the same way that they do.

Boredom may cause a woman to look for love outside her primary
relationship. As time goes by, relationships may become routine
and lose the excitement of their first days. Instead of trying
to remedy the current relationship, women may try to inject
excitement into their lives by having affairs. Affairs are
exciting, both because they involve sex with a new person, and
because they involve a considerable amount of 'sneaking
around,' hiding things from friends and family, essentially
living a second life. For some women, the excitement is so
attractive that they are willing to lose their primary
relationship in order to pursue an affair.

Low self-esteem can also be a reason for women to cheat. They
may feel unattractive and unwanted in their current
relationship, even if this is not the case. Partners may not
make the same efforts at reassurance that were common in the
early days of a relationship, and women's own feelings of
inadequacy can make them look for affirmation from new people
that they are still desirable. Having an affair with a new
partner who finds her attractive and interesting may be
compensation for the low self-esteem that characterizes a
woman's everyday life. Women who have healthy opinions of
themselves and are self-confident are usually happy in their
relationships, while those with low self-esteem tend to look
outside their relationships for affirmation and end up cheating
on their partners.


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