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Why Not to Have a Secret Affair - Dr. Keith on How Cheating Ruins Everything

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Transgressive Behavior

There's a genetic predisposition to eroticize transgression. So secret affairs are forbidden, so that's one of the things that drives us to secret affairs. As arousal goes up, we become more impulsive and tunnel vision. We begin to block other people out - all the kinds of things i happen to do to have a secret affair. The main predictor of an affair environmentally, is opportunity. People who cherish their partner and are grateful for what they have will tend to not have affairs  and be happy,. ad happy continuously.People that nurture resentments and make negative arisons between their partner andother person are beginning that slow cascade of behavior that eventually ends up in betrayil ye

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