What percentage of marriages or relationships will be affected by infidelity?”
There is no exact number for the rate of infidelity in our society. However, the sad truth is that, whatever the figure is, infidelity happens far too often. Our best estimates, which come from studies done in the last five to ten years, reveal that 45-50% of married women and 50-60% of married men engage in extramarital affairs at some point in their relationships. So somewhere around half of all Long Term Love Relationships (LTLRs) are marked by this ultimate betrayal. Sometimes when people engage in infidelity, they tell themselves that they had no choice, that their marriage was so bad, that their spouse drove them to it. But that is never true. There’s always a choice, and infidelity is never the right one. It has a shattering, destructive effect on the LTLR, even when the infidelity is secret. Of course, when the betrayed spouse discovers the infidelity, it has a heartbreaking effect. And whether an infidelity is discovered or not, it does serious damage to the betraying partner’
