The truth about infidelity
The truth about infidelity: Why researchers say it’s time to rethink cheating ZOSIA BIELSKI The Globe and Mail Illustration by Ben Barrett-Forrest/The Globe and Mail Cristina overheard it in the garage. Her husband sat in the car, talking intently on his Bluetooth. As the car speakers blared his conversation, it dawned on Cristina that he was in the midst of breaking up with another woman. “It was literally like the ground had been ripped out from under my feet,” Cristina, a Toronto web developer, says of that evening in 2013. She would soon learn that her husband of 10 years had been seeing another woman for five of them. The woman was a work colleague and married, too. Theirs was an emotional affair involving some physical intimacy. “He said it felt like he was back in high school doing something illicit.” For the sake of their two children, the spouses sought couples’ therapy, investing in two additional therapists that they would see separately. At the end of the first...
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