Extramarital affairs are most likely to occur during two periods

People often say that money makes a man bad. However, a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States found that men are more likely to have extramarital affairs when life changes and their emotions are fragile.

Researchers at the University of Queensland in Australia collected data on divorcees over the past decade, identified 1,000 couples who divorced due to "one party cheating" or "having an extramarital affair," and conducted in-depth interviews with them. The results showed that people are more likely to cheat if they do not get support from their partner during vulnerable moments such as loss, emptiness, loneliness, and helplessness. In this regard, researchers analyzed that when people suffer sudden blows, setbacks, or experience chronic consumption or even overdraft, their psychology will quietly change, becoming as weak as children, longing for protection and comfort, and the most powerful comfort is physical contact, such as a warm hug and sexual physical comfort. If the lover is not around at this moment, or cannot provide such comfort, then the person may intentionally or unintentionally seek comfort from other opposite sex as a way of "self-rescue", which may lead to infidelity.

In addition, researchers also found that when women in the family are too strong, men are more likely to cheat.