This is Why People Cheat in Relationships | Neil Strauss

When it comes to cheating, it's someone being afraid to be honest. And people think, well, I don't want to hurt the person, so I'm not going to tell them what I'm doing. But when people lie, they think they're protecting the person or something, but they're not. They protect themselves from feeling uncomfortable emotions from that person. Right? They're like, I can't deal with your emotions, so I'm not going to tell you what I'm doing in case you have an emotion that I'm uncomfortable with. Truth is, you can literally do anything you want and your partner can respond to it how they want to. So you can literally just say like, Hey, you know, I met someone today and I would love to go sleep with them. And you can say, Cool, you can do that. I don't think I can still be in a relationship with you afterward, but go enjoy yourself and thanks for letting me know who you are, right?