J Relat Res: How do men and women forgive their partners for cheating? What are the differences between genders?

Aug 3, 2020 // Infidelity is one of the most common causes of break-ups between heterosexual couples, and a recent study published in the international journal Journal of Journal of Journals Research found that scientists from institutions such as the Norwegian University of Science and Technology studied 160 people from different regional cultures.
However, men and women have different views on different types of infidelity.
photo source: Shutterstock/NTB scanpix When a partner has a relationship with another person, men tend to pay more attention to physical infidelity than women, while women are more focused on emotional infidelity when their partner starts to have an intimate relationship with another person.
Despite the different types of unfaithful experiences experienced by different groups of people, men and women have much the same willingness to forgive their partners, with new research showing that the extent to which individuals forgive their partner is not related to the type of infidelity.
researcher Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair said: 'To our surprise, the differences between the sexes may not be so great, and the mechanisms behind forgiveness are more or less the same between the sexes,' said
researcher Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair, who recruited 92 couples to study each other in the study, which aims to illustrate the molecular mechanisms behind infidelity and forgiveness. A questionnaire completed described problems in hypothetical scenarios where partners in these different scenarios behave in different ways, one in which the partner had a relationship with another person but did not fall in love, and the other was that the partner fell in love with another person, but did not have sex.
, how willing is the person to choose to forgive his partner when it comes to these circumstances? The results show that men and women deal with partner infidelity/infidelity almost the same, regardless of gender and type of infidelity, most people think they are less likely to forgive their partner's infidelity, and whether the partner's relationship breaks down depends largely on how much they think the infidelity will pose a threat to their relationship, that is, the greater the threat of an individual feeling the threat of infidelity, the greater the likelihood of the relationship breaking down.
, whether a partner believes the relationship will continue depends on how willing they are to forgive the other, especially when it comes to avoiding estrangement from their partner, although there are huge individual differences, and even between the sexes;
there are other aspects that seem to play a key role in emotional infidelity without having sex, to what extent should the cheating individual be held accountable for what happened? The researchers point out that this may be related to the level of blame and willingness to forgive a partner; if an individual is asked to take a large part of the responsibility for ending an intimate relationship with another person, the relationship between the partners is at greater risk, and the blame factor may not play any role when the partner shows physical infidelity.
final researchers say that if an individual voluntarily has sex with someone other than his or her partner, whether you think it's mostly wrong or not, it may be a bit irrelevant, and possibly forgiveness may not depend on the extent to which he or she accepts the blame.
original origin seis: Trond Viggo Gr?ntvedt, Leif Edward Ottosen Kennair, Mons Bendixen. Breakup Slea Like Slea Like Slear Or Emotional Emotional Infidelity: The Severd Threat, Blame, and The San et Reis, Of The RelationshipS (2020). DOI: 10.1017/jrr.2020.5.