There seem to be no boundaries that cannot be breached because of human frailties, our inabilities to control and discipline our impulses to satisfy the demands of sexual cravings. Not that everyone is afflicted and assailed by this primeval-survival mechanism to ensure the human race continues.
But few appear to be immune to submitting to that urge, from a world-famous surgeon who seeks out prostitutes, to a housebound woman who goes out of her way to attract attention from the casual serviceman who calls at her door.
Infidelity infiltrates society to a level we don't quite fathom, although we tacitly acknowledge its influence.
In the years of living on this street where our home is located I have observed without really noting its amazing prevalence; one marriage after another collapsing under the weight of grief caused by marital infidelity. Marriages that include families of very young children, high-school-age children, and childless unions alike.
My mind just happened to take a trip up and down this street and I was incredulous when I recalled what had occurred to one stable relationship after another.
The sheer number on an ordinary middle-class street where lust, emotional dysfunction, overheated hormones, curiosity, defiance of social convention - whatever - caused one partner to go astray and in the process destroy the trust of the other through a repeated act of infidelity.
It is a personal emotional convulsion from which many people never truly recover. It is an affliction of the human psyche. It is a tragedy that has far-reaching consequences in the trauma it causes to the minds of those involved, particularly the children of such broken marriages.
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