7 Surprising Reasons Why Some People Never Cheat

We talked about infidelity a lot.

But what about not cheating your partner.

There are some pretty curious research on this topic.

Why some people never choose to cheat their partner in life ?

Before jumping into the research material, here are the top seven reasons people avoid cheating their partners.

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Satisfied with current relationship — Partners who feel that they are satisfied with their current relationship are not ready to lose the trust of their spouse or partners. They are happy with their life and do not want to take any risk to lose the love and trust of their beloved.

Feeling of guilt — A majority of people do not cheat because they do not want to due to strong feel of guilt. For example, though my wife cheated me, I do not think I am able to cheat anyone because it will put me into enormous guilt.

Fear of retaliatory infidelity — Now this is something which is pretty strong cause of not cheating the partner. Many people can not digest the feeling of his or her partner cheating them, and the fear also make them avoid cheating in the first place. The fear of getting cheated if they cheat and caught, is something which make a large number of people avoid infidelity.

Lack of provocation — Many people think their partners are nice to them and they are not provoked to take a look outside of their long term relationship. They are happy and contained inside it.

Fear of the partner’s reaction — This is a strong cause for many to not try extra-marital relationship. Running a dual relationship is often tough and there is a high probability that you’ll be caught sooner or later. Many fear the strong reaction that will come from their partner and consider it much safer not to venture into unnecessary trouble of running two relationship.

Fear of public shame — Now few fear it and few do not care about it. I personally know folks who do not care about what other think about their life and relationship. For many getting caught in cheating and shaming is a huge deal breaker to avoid cheating. For some it is not that a big issue at all. But still it is a significant reason for many to not cheat their partners.

Fear of trouble — Fear of trouble can range from fear of getting caught, fear of shaming from family or getting infected due to sexually transmitted diseases. There are people who fear unnecessary troubles that come with having a casual affair beyond marriage or long term relationship. And it is the main reason they want to avoid it at no cost.

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These seven reasons of avoiding infidelity is first mentioned by Menelaos Apostelou and Rafaella Panayiotou in their research work couple of years back.

They conducted detailed study on this subject and their work is cited in multiple scholarly journal.

Through their study they found around 47 different reasons which prompts us not to cheat our partner.

But among these 47 causes there are top 8 causes which are the strongest reasons as per their research.

I documented the top seven reasons out of the eight because I felt that there are two reasons which looks pretty similar.

If you wish to take a detailed look on their scientific study then take a look at their work which is given below.

Menelaos Apostelou and Rafaella Panayiotou of the University of Nicosia study –
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191886919302090

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This post was previously published on medium.com.

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