Tag Archives: Cheating and Affairs

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  Infidelity by degrees

  Cultural norms claim that infidelity is merely about sex. So long as it stays away from the bedroom we remain honorable. But what about our thoughts? Can what we think and feel be just as damaging to our relationship as an affair?

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  Seven battles ever single parent must win – #1 Entitlement

  The Kübler-Ross model or as it’s commonly known The Five Stages of Grief says that individuals go through five distinct emotional states when faced with the reality of tragedy, most notably loss from death. These stages, denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance can occur in a predictable and logical order, randomly, or in other cases, [...]

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  Is it REALLY just flirting?

  I can still remember when I first committed the sixth of Pope Gregory I’s seven deadly sins. I was in Mrs. Heath’s sixth grade class at Charlotte Elementary School in what is still a two red-light town. At this age I had began noticing the opposite sex, which prompted a new outlook about girls as [...]

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  How I did, and didn’t, deal with my ex’s affair

  The discovery of my ex wife’s affair wouldn’t have made for juicy  Lifetime television. I never walked in to find the lovers in a pornographic embrace, this happened way before I could have hacked into her Facebook account, and sexting had not yet made it to prominence. It never manifest through a counseling epiphany nor [...]

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  He cheated and why it’s your fault.

  There’s a bit of buzz going around regarding a new book written by a sociologist at England’s University of Winchester titled The Monogamy Gap: Men, Love, and the Reality of Cheating. I’m not going into detail concerning Eric Anderson’s hypothesis surrounding why men cheat, only to say that he came up with his findings from [...]

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  Once a cheater, always a cheater?

  We’ve all heard the saying “a leopard can’t change its spots” which intimates that people will be who they will be and can’t or won’t change. That a person’s character or nature, much like the feline’s conspicuous spots, is life long. Where you to have asked me after my divorce seven years ago I would have [...]

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  Arnold and Maria – The hypocrisy of infidelity.

  Arnold and Maria’s breakup is all over the news. But one piece seems to be conveniently missing from many of the stories. And it’s the hypocrisy of infidelity.

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