INFIDELITY FACTS

60% of men and 40% of women will have an extramarital affair.

The Kinsey Report in the 1940s and 1950s showed that by age 40, 50% of the men had had an extramarital affair.

The Kinsey Report showed that by age 40, 26% of the men had had an extramarital affair.

The Hite Report on Male Sexuality of 1980 found that 72% of men married two years or more had had an extramarital affair.

Shere Hite's 1987 survey of women found that 70% of women married five years or more had had an extramarital affair.

People who have affairs are more likely to divorce.

80% of those who divorce as the result of an affair later regret their decision.

Approximately 15% of women and 25% of men have more than four affairs during their married lives.

Fewer than 10% of people having affairs divorce their spouse and marry their lover. 75% of these marriages end in divorce.

When a marriage survives an affair, it takes between one and three years to recover.

Sources:

Staheli, Lana, Affair-Proof Your Marriage: Understanding, Preventing and Surviving An Affair. New York, NY: HarperCollins, 1995.

Vaughan, Peggy, The Monogamy Myth. New York, NY: Newmarket Press, 1989.

Questions? Ask Bob.