As a person who has cheated multiple times, and has also been in open relationships, and thus feels she has explored the subject at least a little more than average, I feel this article gives one very superficial and one very "understandable" reason for cheating. Maybe this is an article to humanize cheating. the cheater doesn't really want to cheat. The cheater is a female who feels guilty over her sexual promiscuity. The cheater is in a position in which it is easily understandable, for basically all sexes/genders/non-asexuals, that she cheat.

However, although this may be distasteful for most of the audience (for whatever reason : I suspect my objections are not everyone's) , it is only what is promised in the title. What did we expect? A cheater who is not apologetic. It just so happens that this portrait of an unapologetic cheater feels waaaaaaay more kinda-sorta-but-we-don't-like-it justified than those cheaters that arise out of nowhere in our relationships and our friends, in tide clearly wrong cases where no matter what, cheating wasn't okay.

Well, we're getting the vision of the bad guy here, to be sure. And they are probably really appreciating the fact that they get to tell their side of the story, whether or not they make it purposely biased to hide their motives or whether they are really honest in an attempt to take responsibility. Who are we to know?

For monogamous people, it is vital to find cheating in general reprehensible. To accept others breaking this norm threatens your own monogamous relationship. I wonder if that is why I do not like this article.

I wonder if it's because I just don't find the cheater ... guilty enough.

I wonder how this article would sound like from a man's perspective and if it would feel into the stereotype that men can be ... Not ashamed of such consequences. Would it feed into the trope that men who cheat are ubiquitous and unashamed? That would certainly appeal to a certain audience, many of which probably also read this article.

This is content produced for the masses that delivers exactly what it promises in its title, yet manages to (at least for me) kind of bother me. I guess it's successful. It's made me think about it long after I navigsted away from the page.

I guess I can't relate to this woman.