No, because I’m not a horrible person.

Cheating is something that I find, on Fluther, most people never ever admit to doing, yet stats for the general population show otherwise. I specified “for the general population” because maybe Fluther’s population is different, and I’m sure there are other criteria that skew the stats in different directions, but in general, a large portion of both sexes have cheated on their S.O’s. I’m not saying the majority, but to me, anything over 10% is a significant portion of a population.

True. Believe that there are a lot of them who cheat but just don’t want to admit it.

There a certain primates whose females moan very loudly during sex. Primatologists have concluded that this is due the females wanting to attract more males to participate in a threesome or foursome. What this accomplishes is that none of the males know who the father is. Since we’re the only primate to invent Maury, the male’s response is to not kill the child out of spite, because as far as they know they may be the father.
There are other primates that form lifelong pair bonds. Their females do not moan very loudly at all. They do not wish to attract any attention during sex.
Due to my extensive review of the relevant pornography, I have concluded that maybe, just maybe, we are not genetically designed to exclusively pair bond. I think that may be something that human beings threw in later as an intelligent adaptation, like agriculture etc.
Conclusion: I think that all human beings feel somewhat distressed from exclusive pair bonding, the same sort of distress we feel when we cannot cave in the skull of someone who cut us off in traffic.
Of course as natural as the desire to cheat on your SO is, it as also very hurtful (like caving in someone’s skull). I just don’t want you to think you’re a bad person for feeling tempted.

I only cheated on my ex wife after being accused of doing it numerous times , yes it felt good because by the time I cheated we were no longer intimate and I could barely stand to be around my ex.

@tubeguru interesting….

I have never and would never cheat on my boyfriend, I love him completely.
I have cheated in the past. On my ex. I regret it now, as I know I hurted him very much, and he didn’t deserve that. I told him the day after, and he didn’t leave me. I think I did it because I wanted him to, but he didn’t. At the time I didn’t regret it, but I do now. There is no excuse for that kind of appalling behaviour. I should have just done the decent thing and left him first.

I cheated on my ex-husband several times. I wasn’t looking for ‘better sex’ though so it wasn’t better or worse. I regretted all the moments immediately but, looking back, all of them should have been red flags for me to not get married to him. I wasn’t caught but once he overhead me talk about my sleeping with a friend of mine. He was angry but it was towards the end of our relationship and I did care but there were bigger issues.

Only at Monopoly & even then the kids told on me :(

No, never. I was married for 22 years and it was my ex that cheated on me.
I never wanted to do that to someone, and certainly not to myself.
I have never been a sneaky, secretive type and am not built for deception.