Why I Cheated

Dave Carder, author of Torn Asunder Workbook: Recovering From an Extramarital Affair, said that infidelity generally falls into two distinct categories. "There are predators who are out looking all the time," he said. But it is the second group that is the most typical. "The other kind of adultery happens to people who are not looking, but they just get swept off their feet," he says. "There is a lot of shame, remorse, guilt, problems in the marriage. Those people are a very different group of people than the first group." Infidelity is nothing new. If Adam and Eve had had more options they'd probably have cheated on each other. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending who you talk to) these days it's much easier to reach for that forbidden fruit, and everybody does it for their own reasons.