Tag: surviving infidelity

The following is an excerpt from "The Secrets of Surviving Infidelity" and reprinted by permission of Scott Haltzman, MD and Johns Hopkins University Press

?How frequent are affairs? It depends on how you define affairs, who you ask, and how they interpret the numbers. Among experts, there is no consensus on this issue. One of the most widely acknowledged statistics is this: about 1.5 percent of people will have an affair for each year of marriage. Not so bad, you might think. But that’s only per year. In other words, after ten years the rates go up to 15 percent, and after twenty years, 30 percent of married people have had an affair.