We had a good response to the poll, “What stops you from cheating on your partner?,” with 231 people casting their votes.
What makes your response even more gratifying is that the OneLove web site is still young, and has not been live for three months yet.
So thank you all for making the time to give us your views. And please visit us regularly and tell us what you think about love, sex, relationships and HIV and the issues that affect them.
This web site is your platform to communicate with the OneLove campaign, with each other so that we can make smarter, healthier relationship choices.
The OneLove web site also welcomes suggestions for articles and polls that answer your most pressing questions.
So what did you tell us?Love and happiness are the key
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21% of you said that you did not cheat because you love your partner and you are happy with him/her.
16% of you said that you did not do it because you would lose respect for yourself.
13% said an affair would hurt your partner and another 13% of our respondents said your partner satisfies you emotionally and sexually.
Only 11% said you did not have an affair because you are afraid of getting HIV.
6% said your partner would leave you, and another 6% said it’s against your religion to cheat on your partner.
5% of you said you’d already cheated and it was not worth the pain, and 3% said you had not met anyone who tempted you to cheat.
The rest of the votes went to affairs cost too much money (2%), people in my community would call me rude names(1%), it’s against my culture to cheat on my partner(1%) and other (2%).
