The challenge is that, for as long as men who do not cheat on their partners remain silent when the issue of multiple concurrent partners is being discussed, only one side of the story is heard. And the women who have been hurt by the syndrome will preach to the choir, while everyone else ignores them. And the problem will continue…

In our attempt to provide the many sides to the issue of multiple concurrent partners, we would like to conclude this article with two thoughts:

1. When the poll on whether we would want to know if our partners were cheating on us, one woman wrote to OneLove: “I have never been cheated on but have cheated – a lot! I have no idea how to answer!”

2. Here is the story of a woman who said that cheating made her feel beautiful, sexy, powerful and in control. The post was published earlier this year, but it needs to be highlighted in view of the current discussion.

Talk about it

So what do you think? Are we bending the truth as you know it in our attempt to be fair to both sexes? Do men cheat more than women and that is why it is easy to generalise that men cheat? Or is it that, society condemns women very strongly when they cheat, and therefore, they have become better able to hide it when they do cheat on their partners?

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