The Statistics of Cheating

Posted on February 25th, 2008 by olga

Do you know how widespread is unfaithfulness nowadays? As said by some researchers, more widespread than you might imagine. Think about the numbers:
41% - Marriages in which one or both partners admit to unfaithfulness, either physical or emotional.
57% - Men who announce to committing unfaithfulness in any relationship they’ve had. For women it’s 54%.
36% - Men and women who declare to having an affair with a co-worker.
17% - Men and women who declare to emotional or physical unfaithfulness with a brother-in-law or sister-in-law.
68% - Women who say they would have an affair if they knew they would never get caught. For men, it was 74%.
The typical length of an affair, either emotional or physical is 2 years.
31% - Marriages that stay together after an affair has been admitted or found out.