For most of history, “til death do us part” has been the expectation most couples have of one another, and yet cheating has always been a fact of life, usually in secret. While infidelity is still a common occurrence, people are talking about it openly more than ever before. In this episode, Gabi and Joanne discuss the emotional and literal logistics of having an affair, polyamory, and the reason happily married people cheat.
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Links:
Why Happy People Cheat by Esther Perel, The Atlantic, October 2017: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/10/why-happy-people-cheat/537882/
Cheating statistics: https://comparecamp.com/cheating-statistics/
Polyamory Works for Them, by Alice Hines, The New York Times, August, 2019: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/03/style/polyamory-nonmonogamy-relationships.html