Can Ovulation Lead to Cheating?
The conventional wisdom says that married people cheat because they’re not happy with their married relationship. The fact is, however, that this isn’t borne out by scientific research. According to a recent article at Psychology today, there are actually several reasons that a woman might cheat on her husband with another man.
One of those reasons is that she’s ovulating.
Whether we want to realize it or not, and whether we want to admit it or not, many of our sexual desires and practices are simply biology. Our bodies try to do what they can to continue the species. That means that, in many cases, a woman will feel more sexually aroused when she’s ovulating. If her husband isn’t available, she may be tempted to stray.
Understand, of course, that this doesn’t justify a morally objectionable behavior; rather, it helps us understand one of the possible reasons in the equation.
Here are some other possibilities that can contribute to a woman cheating:
- Sexual peaking. Women seem to peak, sexually, at about 30. Men peak sexually at 18. Whether this is because of biology or sociology remains to be seen, but the fact of the matter is that women may start to peak about the time their husbands’ sexual desires are winding down.
- Backup plans. In some cases, a woman at the end of her reproductive years might be trying to fulfill a psychological need for a backup plan. For example, she may be trying to provide for her physical needs later in life, especially if her husband is older than she is.
- Feeling attractive. Sometimes, a woman just doesn’t feel desired by her husband. She feels desired by someone else, because her husband stops his vocal praise of her beauty. It’s not that she’s unhappy with him, she just feels more attractive with another man.
Of course, there are plenty of other possibilities, and no two situations are exactly alike. The key is to catch the tempation to cheat early on, before you succumb and wind up putting your relationship in jeopardy.
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