Signs your partner is going to cheat on you

Could this be happening to you?
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Your other half having an extra-marital affair is every spouse's worst nightmare. We all think it from time to time, even if it's just a fleeting thought stemming from an unfamiliar smell in the air, an unusually late work night out, or a text from a number you don't recognise. Most of these thoughts are usually unfounded and leave your head as quickly as they entered. But sometimes these little discrepancies all add up and end up niggling away at you until they're hard to ignore.

So if you were wondering, these are some of the top tell-tale signs to watch out for that it might be about to happen to you:

Men are more likely to cheat if...

  • The more financially dependent they are from their partner
  • If they earn considerably more than their partner 
  • Men who are predominantly risk takers or have very high sex-drives are unsurprisingly more inclined to stray

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    • Men are way more likely to cheat with younger women (no surprises there)
    • If their wife is pregnant (as if we don't already have enough to worry about during that time!)

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      FUN FACT: Married men have been shown to be just as likely to cheat as experience a flight delay (sooo, that's quite a lot then...) 

      Women are more likely to cheat if...

      • They've had quite a few sexual partners already

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        • If they earn more than their male counterpart
        • If a women is better educated than their partner she's more likely to seek out extra-martial activities
        • However, if her overall level of education is lower, she's more likely to cheat (confused? Us too)

          Fun facts for both of the sexes

          • If a man has a traditionally deep voice, and the woman has a higher voice, they're apparently more likely to cheat (perhaps explaining the abundance of well-documented affairs during the Frank Sinatra/ Marilyn Monroe eras)

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            • Power and confidence are both qualities that make men and women more likely to cheat
            • Generally, people are unfaithful for the first time after being married for seven years

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              • About 50% of these extra-marital partners are met in the workplace

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                • Women are much more likely to have affairs when they’re younger, and for men, the likelihood increases with age

                  Other factors at play

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                    • Life stress can be a huge contributing factor to people looking elsewhere

                      FUN FACT: Weirdly, 56% of men who cheat and 36% of women would describe their marriage as 'happy', and 75% of marriages do survive when the male partner has cheated, and 65% when it's the woman.

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                      So, the silver lining is, there's still hope if this does end up happening to you.


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