CAUSES of INFIDELITY in MARRIAGE

Marriage is an agreement between two individuals (male and female) to become husband and wife and to live together, share beliefs, ideas, problems among others. However, one of the problems of marriage in the society today is infidelity, which is a situation whereby either of the couple in marriage is having extra marital affair (s).

Several factors can account for infidelity in marriage. First among these is the issue of poverty. Under normal situation, husband is the leader of a family and thus supposed to provide the needs of the family including food, shelter and others even though the wife can support in some aspects. When the husband cannot perform these roles due to financial impoverishment, this can make the wife to look elsewhere for succor.

Lack of sexual satisfaction can promote infidelity. Where either the husband or wife is denied sexual intercourse or fails to satisfy the sexual curiosity of the other partner, this can make the other partner to seek for sexual satisfaction outside.

When either of the couple in marriage is involved in extra marital affair (s), the other partner can take to it as retaliatory measure afterall what is good for goose is also good for the gander.

Greediness also promotes infidelity. Many men in the society today wish to have sexual intercourse with many females to boost their ego. They are those that are not satisfied with their wives.

Conflict between couple in marriage can further lead to frustration of either of the couple, which can eventually lead to extra marital affair (s).