Why Do Partners Cheat on Their Spouses?
Denial, guilt, and shame are the hallmark of this disease, which become firmly rooted in the belief that one’s addiction can be controlled through willpower. Attempts to control or modify the addiction to specific times and places, or stop the addiction altogether, even if somewhat successful in the short-term, eventually fail as willpower becomes undermined by physical, psychological, emotional, and environmental forces that feed, nurture and sustain the addiction.
