Catching a Cheating Boyfriend: The Truth about Monogamy
Kristel August 27th, 2007
Relationships are built on trust. One of the fundamental aspects of being in a relationship with someone is that both individuals are required to be monogamous to make the relationship work, unless of course it’s an “open relationship”, which I don’t particularly understand nor do I want to understand at this point.
Anyhoo, biologists would point out au contraire, mon chou. Humans, like the rest of the animal kingdom, are predisposed to cheat on their respective mates. They claim that monogamy is something unnatural to humans. And that men and women pursue it for different reasons. While men would pursue it due to sexual reasons—some men would argue that it’s natural for men to cheat with all that seed-spreading that needs to be done, women, on the other hand pursue it for emotional reasons—their partner simply doesn’t give as much attention as they’d like. Men need sexual variety, women need validation. It’s cyclical. You meet, you fall in-love, you get comfortable (no longer in-love) and someone starts looking. Looking leads to touching, touching leads to another relationship. It’s a rather simple diagram that some biologists and some psychologists would paint for us.
