Do Happy People Cheat? I Don't Think So.

There's a statistic that gets thrown around constantly in the infidelity space. A 2020 study published in the Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy found that 56% of men and 34% of women who cheat rate their marriages as "happy" or "very happy." You've probably seen it. It shows up in therapy blogs, Reddit threads, podcasts, news articles — everywhere. And it's used to push this narrative that cheating is random, unpredictable, and completely unrelated to the state of the relationship. That it could happen to anyone, even in a good marriage.