Why do people cheat in relationships and what’s the way forward ?
From the foregoing, it’s clear that infidelity is a mental process occasioned by the function of learning techniques that happens over time.
The Psychology of infidelity oftentimes is a function of societal permissiveness for men to seek out other partners while this shouldn’t be practicable to women folk. Thus, in most cases, men engage in infidelity more than women. The percentage is incomparable. This is also due to cultural restrictions for women and seeming permissiveness for men. For example, in some parts of Idoma land in Benue State of Nigeria, women who engage in infidelity oftentimes are visited with the wrath of alekwu (the spirit of the ancestors) , a god that controls infidelity among the people, especially women.
