4 Reasons Stress Leads People to Cheat
Article by TW Jackson
Stress is a common problem that leads to cheating among men and women who cheat. Stress has a way of coming into your life and completely taking over. The more stressed you feel, the more you engage in behaviors that make you feel stressed. It's a snowball effect for many people that causes a complete and totally destructive avalanche of emotional fallout that takes marriages down with it.
But why does stress cause people to cheat? These four reasons might not seem as surprising once you put them into perspective.
1) The grass looks greener with the other person. When you feel overwhelmed by stress at home the grass is going to look much greener with someone that doesn't carry the emotional baggage or the huge connection of life, property, and stress factors. And, honestly, why would it seem as brown and decaying as the grass that is constantly littered with things like responsibility, obligation, and need? All these things add stress to our lives but they also offer rewards that cannot be measured and certainly can't be accomplished or achieved by cheating on your spouse.
2) Lack of appreciation causes stress and cheating. Though the two are not always connected, feeling unappreciated or even under-appreciated can lead to stress at work and at home. At the office it can lead to you putting out your resume and beginning to look for options and alternatives. At home, sending out a resume is hardly an option by some people do cope by exploring their options in the single world. Most find that they prefer their own marital woes to the new problems that would arise by living with the other person but often not until the damage is done.
3) Some people cheat as a result of stress solely for the physical release of having sex. It's true. Stress does crazy things to marriages. The sex drive is often the first thing to go despite the fact that having sex relieves stress. In some marriages, there is no sex during highly stressed out stages of the marriage. Sex outside of the marriag! e is the way many people in this situation turn.
4) People haven't developed the proper coping techniques to deal with stress. Stress is something that more and more people are just learning about. They haven't even begun to explore the many ways to deal or cope with stress. The more we learn about stress reductions and relief techniques, the better prepared we will be to reduce the impact it has on marriages.
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