Infidelity Causing Marital Breakdown

There is much debate over whether or not infidelity is the leading issue for marital breakdowns or if it is just another factor. Many may believe that infidelity only occurs in superficial relationships and in the media, but infidelity is right in your own back yard. Emotional infidelity, when put next to physical infidelity can be more painful and hurtful to a marriage, and make things worse because physical is quite often tied in with the emotional infidelity (“Truth about Deception,” n.d.) . If emotional infidelity can make that much of an impact on the marriage it shows how the foundations of marriage can fall apart with signs of conflict and the marriage should not have happened. Infidelity expert Stephany Alexander says “Recent studies reveal that 45 or 55 percent of married women and 50 to 60 percent of married men engage in extramarital sex at some time or another during their relationship” (n.d.). Marriages seem to be breaking down due to infidelity because it is occurring so often within the relationship, almost equally between the men and women. Given the following information, we will now diverge into the after effects of infidelity. The emotional and psychological impact of infidelity on the individual damages the marital relationship causing it to eventually breakdown.

After infidelity occurs, the marital breakdown is surely to follow because the individual cannot accept and admit responsibility for their actions, try to mend their marital relationship or the victim is not able to cope with the affair. The individual having the affair is not able to accept the fact the affair occurred, and will often tell the spouse “it just happened”. The individual hurting now feels one’s spouse is unfaithful and uncompassionate ...

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