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Is there more cheating in relationships these days?

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  • 10-10-2015 10:50pm
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    JTL
    Closed Accounts Posts: 109 ✭✭


    I have heard of a good few friends and ex work colleagues getting caught recently - male and female.

    Is it more common now than ever?

    And if so, why? Apps like Tinder?


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    Wompa1
    Registered Users Posts: 8,166 ✭✭✭Wompa1


    JTL wrote: »
    I have heard of a good few friends and ex work colleagues getting caught recently - male and female.

    Is it more common now than ever?

    And if so, why? Apps like Tinder?

    No.


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    dd972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭dd972


    are you talking about Scrabble...?


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    darkpagandeath
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    Doubt it prob easier to catch people at it than in the good old days.


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    #5
    uch
    Registered Users Posts: 7,008 ✭✭✭uch


    Absolutely, I'm eating a sneaky Double Decker and not telling the Missus

    21/25



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    [Deleted User]
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    JTL wrote: »
    I have heard of a good few friends and ex work colleagues getting caught recently - male and female.

    Is it more common now than ever?

    And if so, why? Apps like Tinder?

    Getting caught? Well apparently from what you say...


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    garrixfan
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 230 ✭✭garrixfan


    Instagram generation, of course.


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    Le Surge Eyed Amant
    Closed Accounts Posts: 30 ✭Le Surge Eyed Amant


    I think so. Have a lot of acquaintances who are unfaithful and it's mostly facilitated by the internet (Tinder, dating apps, Facebook etc..).


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    djflawless
    Registered Users Posts: 1,868 ✭✭✭djflawless


    Of course its easier to cheat. So many apps for it and glorify it to be nicer than it actually is...
    Between celebrities to neighbours, at least 75% of people in relationships are doing it and trying to persuade people its an honest days work...
    I know many of my friends who have cheated have blamed lonlieness, sexual neglect, boredom and alcohol, but imo, if any of these scenarios manage to go from ideas to reality, you have wanted them to happen.
    Its a disgusting thing for a man or woman to do, but like i said its so widely encouraged that its starting to become envouraged at this stage


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    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users Posts: 30,267 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    I do think cheating is more common than it was thirty years ago.
    It's so easy for a relationship to develop now because of email/text.
    Dating sites have played a part in married people cheating.
    Tindr probably plays a role in people in their twenties cheating.


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    Antar Bolaeisk
    Registered Users Posts: 3,091 ✭✭✭Antar Bolaeisk


    Whatever happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas on Facebook.


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    Jon Stark
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    Some people certainly seem to think it's not a big deal. Like you'd hear a story from a friend about another friend who cheated, and I'd be thinking that the friend recounting the story isn't phased at all.

    I personally look down upon it. I understand some people may be in an unhappy relationship or where there are kids involved they might feel trapped. But for me it's rock bottom and it tells me a lot about a person.


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    munster87
    Registered Users Posts: 4,233 ✭✭✭munster87


    uch wrote: »
    Absolutely, I'm eating a sneaky Double Decker and not telling the Missus

    He's well endowed so?


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    AvonEnniskerry
    Registered Users Posts: 354 ✭✭AvonEnniskerry


    Yes. I think it's easier to cheat these days but also a lot easier to get caught. The truth will always come out...


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    mal1
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    djflawless wrote: »
    Between celebrities to neighbours, at least 75% of people in relationships are doing it and trying to persuade people its an honest days work...

    Amazing. I would never have realised. Where did you get that statistic from?


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    Menas
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    AvonEnniskerry wrote: »
    Yes. I think it's easier to cheat these days but also a lot easier to get caught. The truth will always come out...

    No truer word said!


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    corner of hells
    Registered Users Posts: 8,362 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    mal1 wrote: »
    Amazing. I would never have realised. Where did you get that statistic from?

    Made the statistic up himself.

    AH tends to allow peoples imagination run a bit wild.For example I can smell the number purple and own my own Tiger Tank.


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    Kenny B
    Registered Users Posts: 165 ✭✭Kenny B


    mal1 wrote: »
    Amazing. I would never have realised. Where did you get that statistic from?

    I've seen these figures and they are easily accessible at the CBO.


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    Chocolate girl
    Registered Users Posts: 131 ✭✭Chocolate girl


    I think with social media it's easier to meet and contact people that you usually wouldn't know or be in touch with. But it also leaves a trail of evidence so easier to be found out.


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    Badly Drunk Boy
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    corner of hells wrote: »
    Made the statistic up himself.

    AH tends to allow peoples imagination run a bit wild.For example I can smell the number purple and own my own Tiger Tank.
    83% of your post could possibly be a bit untrue.


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    #21
    sportstar583
    Registered Users Posts: 74 ✭✭sportstar583


    I feel like there is more cheating in relationships which is why I am not in a relationship lol. I just go for a more friends with benefits route and it's working up decently for me.


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    Satriale
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    uch wrote: »
    Absolutely, I'm eating a sneaky Double Decker and not telling the Missus

    Whatever you do, dont look that up on Urban dictionary...


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    #23
    Buona Fortuna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭Buona Fortuna


    AvonEnniskerry wrote: »
    Yes. I think it's easier to cheat these days but also a lot easier to get caught.

    I hate to come across as the pedantic A/hole but isn't that a bit of a contradiction?

    The old crime triangle:
    Opportunity
    Ability to rationalise it
    Likelihood of getting away with it,

    If all your mates and work colleagues are getting caught doesn't someone think .... Uh Oh Danger Will Robinson?
    corner of hells wrote: »
    Made the statistic up himself.

    AH tends to allow peoples imagination run a bit wild.For example I can smell the number purple and own my own Tiger Tank.

    I have the only one :)


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    Yakult
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    Id say its no different to years ago, but with new means of doing so, through the interwebs.

    And if it seems like more have been doing it, they are probably just caught out more easily than before.


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