Whose cheating is more likely to doom a marriage: husband or wife?

Image: Flickr/Billie Grace WardThere are probably as many ideas about what makes for a good marriage as there are, well, marriages. But most of us can agree that on thing usually makes a marriage worse: adultery. But how common is infidelity, and does it matter who in the relationship cheats? These researchers dug through decades of survey results and found that although husbands are three times more likely to cheat, the marriage was equally doomed if either partner got some on the side. So much for "boys will be boys"!Burning the Candle at Both Ends: Extramarital Sex as a Precursor of Marital Disruption. "This study examines several aspects of the association between engaging in extramarital sex and the disruption of one's marriage. In particular: is there a differential effect on disruption depending on the gender of the perpetrator? Is the effect of infidelity primarily due to its negative impact on ...