Divorce, cheating, and infidelity fiction

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The women I interviewed weren't looking for a way out. They loved their spouses, valued their families, and had no interest in blowing up their lives. But they were trapped—feeling frustrated, unfulfilled, and out of options.

Rather than torching their marriages, they found a workaround. They avoided a messy, heartbreaking divorce by engaging in a carefully managed, highly strategic affair to meet their needs without losing what they valued most. I call it the "infidelity workaround" because for them, that's exactly what it was: A way to stay.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hidden-desires/202503/why-some-women-cheat-not-to-leave-but-to-stay?msockid=heil_satan