I don't think cheating in those cases is eventual, unless one of you does not have the commitment required to try to work out the relationship. In which case, they both obviously have communication issues and two people with poor communication skills will not fare very well at all, so I would say that break up is imminent.
Cheating, I consider to be a very childish move but I feel that people can be driven to cheat by withholding of affection, withholding of emotional support, lack of satisfaction with the affection given, boredom and unwillingness on both parts to put effort in to "re-ignite" the fire in the relationship, threat of abandonment, or the both of you already have decided that the relationship is over but you're both too comfortable with the life you built with each other to risk losing it (in other words, that life is what you love, not the relationship) or feel that leaving the person is not an option.
Either way, I feel that a person can be driven by circumstance to cheat but part of that drive rests in their own mentality. In my mind, once a person cheats, more often then not, the relationship was over before the affair started and had the affair not have occurred, they would have either continued to stagnate or one of them would have finally grown so dissatisfied that they would have left anyway. In a monogamous relationship, cheating can mean many things but more often then not, cheating is a fantastic indicator of a lack of commitment. None of the problems that I have stated above can be solved unless both parties are committed to the relationship and each other.
Do you think people can be driven to cheat in relationships?
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I don't think cheating in those cases is eventual, unless one of you does not have the commitment required to try to work out the relationship. In which case, they both obviously have communication issues and two people with poor communication skills will not fare very well at all, so I would say that break up is imminent.
Cheating, I consider to be a very childish move but I feel that people can be driven to cheat by withholding of affection, withholding of emotional support, lack of satisfaction with the affection given, boredom and unwillingness on both parts to put effort in to "re-ignite" the fire in the relationship, threat of abandonment, or the both of you already have decided that the relationship is over but you're both too comfortable with the life you built with each other to risk losing it (in other words, that life is what you love, not the relationship) or feel that leaving the person is not an option.
Either way, I feel that a person can be driven by circumstance to cheat but part of that drive rests in their own mentality. In my mind, once a person cheats, more often then not, the relationship was over before the affair started and had the affair not have occurred, they would have either continued to stagnate or one of them would have finally grown so dissatisfied that they would have left anyway. In a monogamous relationship, cheating can mean many things but more often then not, cheating is a fantastic indicator of a lack of commitment. None of the problems that I have stated above can be solved unless both parties are committed to the relationship and each other.