Why women stray

Can I live with the guilt?
But it doesn't always work out that way. What if you've cheated and wish you could turn back time? Regret is one of many emotions that can hit someone after they've started an affair or committed the first act of an affair. After sleeping with her boyfriend's best friend, and deeply regretting it, is it time to come clean or lay low?

'It's constantly on my mind and I cry all the time. For two weeks after, I couldn't eat. And I know it sounds crazy, but I cry when I have sex with my boyfriend but have to disguise it. I feel like I'm re-living the night. I feel humiliated and afraid. Should I tell him? I know he will want to finish with me. And that's for definite. I know him through and through and he will not stay with me under any circumstances.'
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No longer the domain of married men
There's no one rule for what to do after a woman has had an affair. Interestingly, more marriages break down if it's the woman who has strayed than if the man has. Maybe women are more inclined to forgive or that when women have affairs, it's an emotional as well as a physical connection and therefore harder to recover from. Whatever it is, affairs are clearly no longer the domain of married men.