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Facebook is foreplay. That's the word from James J. Sexton, a divorce lawyer and author of If You're In My Office, It's Already Too Late: A Divorce Lawyer's Guide to Staying Together. He says he gets two or three new cases per week that feature infidelity "that started or was made easier to perpetuate" by Facebook.
"Facebook facilitates adultery and infidelity generally," explains the expert. "Facebook gives you the means, the excuse and the cover to communicate with people you have no reason, no business, to talk to."
Even when there's no actual cheating, it seems social media is causing problems in many relationships. According to the Pew Research Center, 34% of young adults polled admitted to having feelings of uncertainty or jealousy because of the way their partner interacts with other social media users. Something as simple as a “like” from an ex, or a mere comment, can open up a can of insecure worms.
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It seems the unfaithful are going to great lengths to cover their tracks. Statistics show that that 60% of cheaters create fake social media profiles to deceive their partners, while 48% of cheaters use burner accounts to communicate with others on social media.
37% of individuals who cheat on social media use ambiguous messages to avoid detection. And more than half of the cheaters polled admitted to deleting or archiving messages after sending them in a bid to cover their tracks.
As much as mobile devices are helping people to cheat, they're also often a cheater's downfall.
According to Australia's Body+Soul 2024 Sex Census, almost half of infidelity incidents end because the guilty partner comes clean. But 17% of those polled said they got caught because their other half checked their phone or another device.
“I think that happens a lot and I think phones play a massive role in people finding out these days,” says intimacy and relationship therapist Lara Maree. “Because people see little nuances or that something is off, and they start looking for things.”
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In 2023, Dr. Kathy Nickerson, a clinical psychologist and acclaimed author, created two surveys to better understand the differences between men and women when it comes to infidelity.
"One survey was for straying partners that had cheated in the relationship and the other was for betrayed partners who were hurt by the affair," says the expert, who polled more than 5,700 men and women. Some of the results might surprise you, others maybe not...
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Among the findings were that men were more likely to rewrite their relationship history with their partner and tell themselves that their original relationship was worse than it was. 56.9% of men admitted to doing this compared to 41.8% of women.
"Men were more likely to tell their affair partner negative stories to make their partner or spouse seem worse than they were," reveals Nickerson, adding that 46.4% of men endorsed this behavior, as compared to 36.1% of women.
The survey also revealed that women feel less regret during the affair than men, and that women are more likely to feel "in love" with their affair partner than men.
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