Recently I posted the question on Twitter…. “Is it mean to say that ALL men cheat? Or MOST cheat? I got an overwhelming amount of responses. Most twitter friends like Jen_Gardner, NigerianHotness, and Mya1979 felt that they didn’t believe that all men cheated. Then of course we had opinions like MsLuckyLefty who felt that all the men in her life were cheats. As hard as that may be for people to swallow, you can’t fault her because that’s all she’s seen, so why would her opinion be anything else? Most responses where like that of CURVYQUEEN , templeostone, Afrikyn, and iKick_Buttowski who believed that both men and women cheated and that gender didn’t matter.
While doing my research to find out why people cheat I came across thousands of different lists of reasons why. How confusing? It made me start thinking that maybe humans aren’t designed to desire only one human being for the rest of their life? Maybe that’s why people so heavily believe in the “soul mate” concept?
This lead me to believe that being with a person in this day and age where mutually you both want to be faithful to each other forever makes the soul mate concept surreal.
March 22nd, 2010 at 9:49 am
I don’t think gender has anything to do with cheating. People cheat for the simple fact that they love doing something “wrong” and getting away with it. Its nice to have someone new and exciting in your life when the current person is getting stale. Even people who are happy in their relationship cheat if they can get away with it because everyone loves attention. Which is why several people are now adopting the idea of polyamorous relationships.
“Soul Mate” is a term people like to use to make another person feel special but in my opinion its total crap. There is always going to be someone somewhere else that you are attracted to-even if you do not act on the feelings.