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> But if an affair is unhealthy, by that definition literally most marriages are. I would be inclined to say that yes an affair would be a characteristic of an
by bnchrch 10y ago
> But if an affair is unhealthy, by that definition literally most marriages are.
I would be inclined to say that yes an affair would be a characteristic of an unhealthy marriage; at least by western standards. However I'm not sure you are correct in stating that most marriages have one or both partners being unfaithful. [0]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infidelity#Infidelity_and_gender https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infidelity#Infidelity_and_gend...
- zaroth 10y agoThe numbers seem to be all over the place. I've read 25% of married Americans report having an affair (meaning .75 * .75 = 56% chance of a marriage not having an affair) Then just below it says 20%. The Washington Post quotes a study claiming fully 70% of women and 72% of men (study by sex researcher Shere Hite, so pretty big grain of salt there) and then cite a University of Chicago study finding 25% of married men have affairs. So it's apparently somewhere between 30-70% of marriages which have at least one partner who has an affair.
- jdminhbg 10y ago> I've read 25% of married Americans report having an affair (meaning .75 * .75 = 56% chance of a marriage not having an affair) Only if "married but having an affair" is an independent variable, which I would doubt -- I would be shocked if one partner having an affair weren't predictive of the other partner having an affair. Interesting to see the spread of numbers by different studies though; I wonder how close to reality any of them are.