Why People Cheat: Understanding Betrayal, Desire, and the Hidden Psychology of Infidelity - Softcover

Florian, Jean C

9798194512492: Why People Cheat: Understanding Betrayal, Desire, and the Hidden Psychology of Infidelity

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ISBN 13: 9798194512492

Publisher: Independently published, 2026

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Why do people cheat—even when they claim to love their partner?

Is infidelity driven by desire, loneliness, boredom, insecurity, resentment, sexual dissatisfaction, opportunity, money, power, validation, fantasy—or something deeper?

In Why People Cheat, Jean Florian explores the complicated psychology behind betrayal and the many emotional, sexual, relational, personal, and situational factors that can lead people to cross boundaries.

Rather than reducing infidelity to a single explanation, this book examines how multiple forces can operate at the same time. It explores emotional affairs, sexual dissatisfaction, attraction, workplace relationships, social media, dating apps, ex-partners, pornography, sexual curiosity, money, status, career opportunities, travel, loneliness, resentment, relationship neglect, major life changes, and repeated cheating patterns.

The book also confronts common myths about attraction, body type, aging, sexual performance, penis size, vaginal “tightness,” pregnancy, illness, and changing desire. It explains why dissatisfaction may help us understand vulnerability without making the betrayed partner responsible for another person’s decision to deceive.

Readers will also explore the difference between cheating and consensual non-monogamy, including open relationships, swinging, and polyamory; how digital technology has created new pathways to secret relationships; why some people maintain elaborate double lives; why cheaters may deny, minimize, blame, or reveal the truth gradually; and what genuine remorse and accountability can look like after discovery.

Most importantly, Why People Cheat maintains one principle throughout:

Understanding betrayal is not the same as excusing it.

Relationship problems may be shared. Secret choices are not.

Whether you have been betrayed, have crossed a boundary yourself, are trying to understand someone you love, or simply want a deeper understanding of human relationships, this book offers a direct and thought-provoking examination of one of the most difficult questions in love:

Why do people cheat?

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