They don’t feel important
While you’re 100% not to blame for your partner’s infidelity, one reason they might have cheated is because they didn’t feel important or appreciated. Of course, this goes back to requiring an open line of communication between partners to express dissatisfaction.
“It is easy to feel overlooked and unimportant especially in a long-term relationship, but with communication, planning and compromise (non of which sound passionate or romantic) this is a problem that can be easily solved,” McRitchie said. “In cases where a person feels unimportant or taken for granted, they are often craving validation. They need to know that are still exciting, desirable, alive. The act of infidelity can be what re-connects them to the person they used to be before they became invisible. Nothing says ‘I see you’ more than sex.”
