If finances and your children's abilities permit, you might also consider setting up computer and e-mail accounts so that you can send mail electronically to each other day or night. Don't get discouraged because of behavior during the first hours or days. Later on, what they'll remember is that you attended their school play, or read stories to them before tucking them in at night, or brought them to the doctor's office when they fell and scraped their knees. There's a man lying on his deathbed, surrounded by his loving wife and three beautiful, talented, intelligent children - and the youngest, an unattractive lump. The study has been conducted annually since 1988, and has shown similar results each time.
Men report roughly double the percentage of extra-marital affairs.
The profile of the adulterous woman is unclear, though, possibly because the media is still most comfortable with the good-wife image of women. Epitomized by the first ladies who have stood by their cheating men, the ideal wife does not leave, and certainly does not carry on her own extra-marital affairs. But there may be more women who stray than our society is willing to admit. Some sources would say we have been given a one-sided look at the adulterous spouse. Physiological and behavioral evidence to support the claim that women are not always faithful can be found in both sexes.