It has always been said that weddings are fixed in heaven and marriage is not only the union of two people, but two hearts. When you bind in this sacred bond, you vow to your faith and dedication to each other. But many times it is seen that despite love and positive feelings, some people have to face infidelity in their marriage. Even after marriage, many people have extramarital affairs and their partner has to face this problem.
In view of increasing cases of extramarital affairs in India, survey has been conducted at several levels. If we look at some surveys, it is found that more than 50 percent of married men and women have extramarital affairs. At the same time, some surveys show that now 76 percent of women and 61 percent of male in India do not consider extramarital relations wrong. But, to find out why this is happening, we spoke to Dr. Arpita Sharma, a psychiatrist of Emonids in Gurugram. Dr. Arpita told us how common extramarital affairs have become in Indian society and what can be the possible reasons?
What is extramarital affair?
Dr. Arpita Sharma said that when someone makes a relationship with someone else instead of his partner after marriage, he is called an extra marital affair. However, the extra marital affair does not mean that when your life partner is intimate with someone else, but when your life partner maintains an emotional relationship with someone other than you, it is also called Extra Marital Affair.
Causes of extramarital affair
If the arranged marriage of a boy or girl is done under the pressure of the family, while they are having a love affair with someone outside, then it is common for them to have extra marital affair after marriage. At the same time, both husband and wife do jobs in the era of inflation, in such a situation, they are not able to give each other time in their married life. Nevertheless, the possibility of extramarital affair increases. In addition, when newly married couples in Orange Marriage do not get time to understand each other and they do family planning immediately after marriage due to family pressure, the possibilities of affair also increase.
What are the shortcomings that give rise to extramarital affairs?
Dr. Arpita said that there can be many reasons for extramarital affairs, including lack of romance between married couples, lack of sexual desire, strong emotional relationship and lack of economic strength.
Emotional disconnection
It is important to have both physical and emotional relationships for married couples. When a person is unable to connect emotionally with his life partner or does not understand the value of his feelings, the partner attachs to a extramarital affair to the emotional support.
Anatomy
Many times after marriage, there is a lack of romance between the couples as well as physical intimacy. In such a situation, partners resort to extramarital affairs to meet their physical needs.
Monotonity
Nowadays, married couples have started feeling boredom due to being tied in the same relationship for many years. In such a situation, people are starting extramarital affairs in search of new adventures and enthusiasm to break the monotony.
Unhappy marriage
If there are many quarrels, misunderstandings and differences between couples after marriage, then they start getting away from each other. In such a situation, a third side comes between the husband and wife.
Revenge
Many times there are cases where people start a love affair to avenge the cheating by their partner.
Not getting respect and praise
Often married couples forget to respect each other and praise each other. In such a situation, when they start getting respect and praise from someone else, they bow towards that person. Then the extramarital affair begins.
Apart from this, when the husband stays away from his wife for a long time, he starts getting attracted towards other women, due to which the affair starts. At the same time, when the wife is pregnant, the husband starts an extramarital affair to meet her physical needs.
How to protect your married life from extramarital affairs?
The doctor says that the wedding door is very delicate and if it is drawn it breaks. This thread of marriage has to be handled very carefully. It is wrong to have a extramarital affair and should not be accepted. If you are facing any problem in your married life, then you should sit with your partner and discuss it and if you need a relationship counselor, then you should also go and take counseling.
