[jennifer505]

I just would love to know some input on why do men or women cheat when they are married. Why not get a divorce if they are unhappy?

[smoothy]

THere are as many reasons as there are people that do it.

[talaniman]

Every cheater justifies their bad behavior with different reasons. To many its not even bad behavior to cheat.

[broken_ heart]

People cheat.. because they can manage to cheat... its not about they are happy or unhappy... its about how easily they can...

[Oliver2011]

"We" don't cheat. Others do, not me. And I wouldn't stand for it. Some people need the excitement of cheating.

[Jake2008]

I agree with all of the above.

I think it has to do with entitlement- that somehow people cheat on their partners because their partners somehow made them, for any number of minor reasons, or major ones for that matter.

There is always a 'reason', and there is always justification.

Alcohol also makes people cheat, as does drugs, job loss, business conventions, crying babies during the night, constipation, and getting a flat tire on the way to the casino. There are as many justifications, as there are people as has been already said.

There is not a big enough deterrent- loss of marriage, life-long effects on children, loss of property and assets, for example. The losses, even when huge, and even when devastating aftermath to family and partners happen, doesn't even enter the mind of a cheater, when they feel entitled to cheat.

They come first, and they are like animals in the wild and do not have the ability to control themselves. They are different from all the other cheaters because their reasons are even better than the other cheaters out there.

Sad, isn't it?