{"id":9697,"date":"2025-07-15T06:09:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T06:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.donotdestroy.com\/index\/789089672799338496-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T05:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T22:11:08","slug":"789089672799338496-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.donotdestroy.com\/index\/789089672799338496-2\/","title":{"rendered":"789089672799338496"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><\/h1>\n<p class=\"npf_link\" data-npf='{\"type\":\"link\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/this-is-the-real-reason-people-cheat-according-to-a-sex-therapist\/?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwLiJKhleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHqj5kchEU6ktCZtKh_kYWwUAII1BZuG_eP9C8Rzzr_RxPfhGj8tbmrm4NlB2_aem_2EpA39nVcdm7ckYukDH9bg\",\"display_url\":\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/this-is-the-real-reason-people-cheat-according-to-a-sex-therapist\/?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwLiJKhleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHqj5kchEU6ktCZtKh_kYWwUAII1BZuG_eP9C8Rzzr_RxPfhGj8tbmrm4NlB2_aem_2EpA39nVcdm7ckYukDH9bg\",\"title\":\"This Is the Real Reason People Cheat, According to a Sex Therapist\",\"description\":\"After 5 decades of listening to couples in crisis, a renowned psychotherapist says the reason people cheat isn\u2019t always what we assume.\",\"site_name\":\"VICE\",\"poster\":[{\"media_key\":\"e5e0aa2c0e7587a9649d73226e524639:a78d2641ab427280-0e\",\"type\":\"image\/jpeg\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":628}]}'><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/this-is-the-real-reason-people-cheat-according-to-a-sex-therapist\/?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwLiJKhleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHqj5kchEU6ktCZtKh_kYWwUAII1BZuG_eP9C8Rzzr_RxPfhGj8tbmrm4NlB2_aem_2EpA39nVcdm7ckYukDH9bg\" target=\"_blank\">This Is the Real Reason People Cheat, According to a Sex Therapist<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo why do people cheat? Often, it\u2019s not because they\u2019re looking for someone else\u2014it\u2019s because they\u2019re looking for themselves. And that search, Perel says, starts not with fixing your partner, but with reawakening your own sense of desire and surprise.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Is the Real Reason People Cheat, According to a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12749],"tags":[4035,12049,3736,4255,11871,8733,4520,3282,370,685,3037,638,10153,12117,4641,3,4521,690],"class_list":["post-9697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tumblr","tag-baby","tag-breakup","tag-cheat","tag-couple","tag-dating","tag-divorce","tag-family","tag-human-beings","tag-life","tag-love","tag-married","tag-money","tag-parents","tag-partner","tag-personality","tag-quote-of-the-day","tag-relationship","tag-sex"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>789089672799338496 - 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