Greek scientists from the University of Nicosia studied the behavior of people who were unfaithful in marriage or long-term relationships. Experts have identified the main strategies by which unfaithful partners try to achieve reconciliation after a relationship. The study was published in the scientific journal magazine Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences (EBS).
Using a series of interviews and open-ended surveys across three tests, experts identified a set of methods used by people who committed treason to gain forgiveness.
Researchers found that study participants attempted to win back the love of their cheating partners by insisting on the importance of their relationship.
Another common strategy was to place the blame for what happened on the cheating partner. Unfaithful people justified infidelity with their partners’ emotional coldness, disregarded their feelings, or even made counter-accusations of infidelity (real or imagined).
Participants also minimized the importance of infidelity by attributing it to the effects of alcohol.
Unfaithful partners often used relatives (including children) and friends to persuade their partners to compromise.
Those who betrayed insisted that what happened would not happen again.
Finally, people caught in infidelity suggest that the betrayed partner should go to a priest, a marriage counselor, etc. He suggested that he re-establish the relationship.
More than 40% of participants in a follow-up sample of 416 people said they had been persuaded to forgive their unfaithful partners using at least one of these strategies.
Researchers suggest that these strategies can be very effective; but their effectiveness is greatly influenced by a person’s gender, age, and personality, among other things.
Previous scientists named The most destructive cause of the spirit of betrayal.