The Psychology of Cognitive Dissonance

Whether you cheat again will depend on how you change your attitude towards commitment or your partner after that first act. We experience this dissonance between the perception of ourselves and our actions. So someone chooses to justify their actions using this logic, they'll probably do it again because they have some form of external justification for their actions. But if you subscribe cheating to a personal flaw and recognize that maybe it's because of your self-esteem, maybe it'sBecause there's tension in your relationship that you might be responsible for,. You don't have open communication, that external validation is no longer there. I think it is always important though to remember that humans make mistakes and that includes your partner. There