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People who cheat on their spouses may apologize when they get caught but it doesn’t necessarily mean they regret cheating in the first place.
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Researchers from Johns Hopkins University conducted a survey with Ashley Madison clients about their views on cheating because who better to ask than those in relationships who are looking for affairs?
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They wanted to get a better understanding on the psychology behind people who actively seek out and engage in extramarital affairs and surveyed 2,000 users on the site — before and after they cheated.
Participants were asked about the state of their marriage, why they wanted to step out on their spouse, and their general well-being.
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While high levels of love for their spouses were reported, the majority of respondents were dissatisfied sexually.
Other motivators for having an affair included a desire for independence, and the desire for more variety in their sex lives.
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The team discovered that users showed little remorse and believe infidelity does not hurt their marriage.
“In popular media, television shows and movies and books, people who have affairs have this intense moral guilt and we don’t see that in this sample of participants,” said Dr. Dylan Selterman, lead study author, according to the Daily Mail.
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“Ratings for satisfaction with affairs was high – sexual satisfaction and emotional satisfaction,” Selterman explained. “And feelings of regret were low. These findings paint a more complicated picture of infidelity compared to what we thought we knew.”
Lack of love, anger towards a spouse, and fundamental relationship issues were the least-cited reasons the respondents have affairs, according to the study.
“People have a diversity of motivations to cheat,” Selterman said, adding the team didn’t see “solid evidence” that people’s affairs were linked with lower quality or satisfaction in their marriages.
“Sometimes they’ll cheat even if their relationships are pretty good.”
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