• Attraction: sex, companionship, admiration
• Novelty
• Excitement, risk, or challenge
• Curiosity
• Desire to escape or find relief from a painful relationship
• Boredom
• Desire to fill gaps in an existing relationship
• Need to prove one's attractiveness or worth
• Desire for attention

There is no ONE single reason anyone has an affair. There are usually many reasons.

Many folks tend to think that only bad people have affairs or only people in bad relationships....but no one is immune from an affair.

Monogamy is something most people say they believe in and want for themselves. Every survey ever done on this question shows a high percentage of people think monogamy is important to marriage and that affairs are wrong. Belief in monogamy however doesn't prevent large numbers of people from having extramarital affairs. Most people don't intend to have an affair and most people don't think it will happen to them...... but it does.

No one is immune from having affairs; they happen to all kinds of people, in all walks of life, everywhere.

Research of internet sources indicate estimates that 60 percent of men and 40 percent of women will have an extramarital affair. These figures are even more significant when you consider the total number of marriages involved! Since it's unlikely that all the men and women having affairs happen to be married to each other. If even half of the women having affairs (or 20 percent) are married to men not included in the 60 percent having affairs, then at least one partner will have an affair in approximately 80 percent of all marriages.