He cheated, she cheated, we cheated : women speak about infidelity / Ebony A. Utley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Utley, Ebony A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex (Psychology).

Adultery--Psychological aspects.

Adultery.

Women--Sexual behavior.

Women.

Physical Description:

xii, 252 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2019]

Contents:

Section One: I Was the Last to Know That My Partner Cheated on Me

Danielle: "It took several fights for him to understand the terrible position that he put me in"

Janet: "You know about me and you're okay with him having sex with both of us?"

Kathy: "When you're married and you love someone you do not stop loving them because you find out today what they did yesterday"

Willa: "I've had more STds than Carter's got pills and I have been with no one other than him"

Stacey: "I always thought he would change, but being with him changed me"

India: "A person who constantly accuses you is reflecting their guilt"

Dee: "I can't be a wife that allows my husband to openly have an affair"

Understanding Public Infidelity Betrayal

Section Two: I Experienced "Infidelity Plus"

Elizabeth: "Affairs don't happen to nice middle-class Jewish girls!"

Sam: "It was very frustrating to feel like I had paid for the social activities that led to her cheating on me

Teah: "He was playing Russian roulette with his health and mine"

CeCe: "He had no control. He threw away everything for sex"

Faye: "I was already suffering from his cheating, so I couldn't imagine how bad it would be if I were cheating too"

Marie: "I became a mad woman on this hell-bent quest to find out everything"

Forsythia: "His violation of trust hindered my ability to trust my world"

Seville: "As soon as I left, he was trying to get on top of her"

Dot: "I fucked up my whole life over a person"

Understanding "Infidelity Plus"

Section Three: I Cheated on My Partner

Frances: "I know it's weird to say that I was in love with her and slept with someone else at the same time"

Assata: "But I knew after I cheated on him that we would have to break up because I'm not really a cheater like that"

Sue: "Once my husband caught me cheating, all of these complaints came out and there was no taking them back"

Evelyn: "Right person, wrong time

Nicole: "Once you have an affair people think of you as the kind of person that can have an affair"

Taj: "A part of me wanted to be caught so that it would force my husband to deal with our issues"

Sofia: "I wish i felt guilty about how good that sex felt"

Rosa: "To be honest, I'm not sure who my son's father is"

Jennifer: "There's something about that feeling of sleeping with someone new that I just can't seem to recreate in any other aspect of my life"

Ayn: "It was the craziest four months sleeping with the both of them without either of them knowing"

Fiona: "When I had a good closeness with a guy, I had sex with him just to keep him around".

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1476675775

9781476675770

OCLC:

1091586094