Extramarital Affair

You would have promised a lifetime together, a life of unwavering loyalty, of getting old together, and staying together through good and bad times when you took your wedding vows. But as years pass by, you start discovering the glitches in your 'happily ever after.’ The spurt of love you felt for your spouse, turns into monotony and then enters the one we call an extra marital affair . In most of the cases, the one whom you fall for is also married. Both of you enter it just for fun and assume that you both can handle the relationship easily, without disturbing your married lives. With this special one, life suddenly becomes perfect again. The new person with whom you have the affair makes your soul feel connected and you enjoy great sex too. You begin understanding each other so well – something that seemed to have gone missing from your marriage. An extra marital affair brings together three primary elements: a secretive relationship (something which is the foundatio...

Wikipedia describes extra marital relationships as relationships outside of marriage where an illicit romantic or sexual relationship or a romantic friendship or passionate attachment occurs. We all crave & love, then why do we engage in  extra marital affairs ? According to Helen Fisher, a biological anthropologist ,”love is not really an emotion but more of a brain system. When it comes to love, we have three brain systems - first is the sex drive, second romantic love and third, partner attachment. And the brain architecture works in a manner that while being attached to one partner, we can feel intense love for another and sex drive for even more partners.   Affairs can be broadly divided into these categories- Pure lust This is the most common among all types of affair. The couple are in it only for sex as it makes them feel sexually liberated in a secret affair. They have no plans to leave their present partners but they enjoy the passion in bed. Emoti...