Top Marital Problems that cause Infidelity

• Spouses avoid conflict, making it difficult for needs to be expressed.

• Intimacy is frightening to one or both partners of the relationship.

• An affair provides a “safety valve” for reducing intimacy.

• The marriage is in trouble.

• One person refuses to look at their role in the problematic relationship.

• Infidelity is a last ditch effort to get the spouse’s attention.

• Revenge affairs occur when the betrayed partner pays back the partner with their own infidelity.

• ​The infidelity is used as a means of exiting the relationship.