Research shows men who cheat report the same relationship happiness as faithful men, but women who cheat report much lower satisfaction. The difference comes down to how men and women compartmentalize emotions differently in relationships.
Men who cheat are just as happy as men who don't.
That's what the research says in terms of their relationship satisfaction. Yeah, like there's no statistical significant difference between those 2 groups. However, there's an enormous difference in relationship satisfaction between women who cheat and women who don't. And that's part of why I think that men tend to compartmentalize sex better than women, that for women, sex is more bound up with emotional outcomes and reasons than for men.
It's something they have to gatekeep. So—
It's something they have to gatekeep. Yeah, they do. And they're more likely to open the door for a man that they feel authentically attracted to, which is pretty rare, I think, for a lot of women.
