Dear Rodger:
My boyfriend claims that he read a news story that said all men should be excused for being unfaithful to their wives or GFs because of some study that found a cheating gene in all men. Is he right?
Destined to be Cheated On?
Dear Destined ~
What he’s talking about is a recent study involving a gene that regulates vasopressin, a hormone that helps people form bonds with one another. Swedish researchers found that two out of every five men—the study looked at 1,000 men in all—have a gene that reduces their inclination to bond.
Every news story I read on the study, though, also included quotes from experts who said men definitely can overcome the influence of that naughty little gene—if they make a conscious effort to do so.
Perhaps those researchers should now study the tendency among men to read news stories in a, shall we say, “selective” fashion.
Rodger
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From my experience, the number of men with the cheating gene is five out of every five.
The idea of a cheating gene is nonsense. I am of the Henlen Gurly Brown school, which is "A man will cheat only when his wife isn't keeping her husband satsified at home."
I remember seeing one story about this cheating gene thing, and they ran a photo of George Clooney next to it. There was no mention of Clooney in the story or anything, but I guess they were trying to say he is the epitome of the cheating guy, which I thought was pretty tough on a guy who has a reputation of being very nice.
To the woman who blames the wife when her husband cheats: Sure it is the wife's fault . . . for being 50 instead of 20, for refusing to have repeated facelifts, for not wanting to augment her perfectly good breasts with fake ones, for accepting the fact that a woman ages . . . her fault completely!
i know my comment is not going to be a popular one. i am not going to defend the fact that i cheated. it was a terrible thing to do. it was wrong and it was a crushing blow to my wife. i am ashamed of what i did. and i know it was indefensible.
but what i want to say is that it did serious damage to my relationship and therefore serious damage to my wife and to me. it is not only she who suffered and still suffers. i suffer too, every day of my life. betraying the person you love is a terrible thing and i would give everything in the world not to have done it.
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