Do relationships that begin with cheating last?

According to WebMD, the “in love” stage of an affair lasts 6 to 18 months, on average. And around 75\% of the marriages that start as affairs end in divorce. Considering only 5 to 7\% of affair relationships lead to marriage, that’s a grim statistic for couples hoping their affairs will last forever.

Can you make a relationship work after cheating?

Other times, it does come to light and wreaks absolute havoc on what may have seemed like a good relationship. If you’re in the midst of figuring out how to handle infidelity, then you’ve probably asked yourself, can you make a relationship work after cheating? The honest truth is that it really does depend on so many different variables.

What do successful couples do when their spouse cheats?

According to Dr. Gary Brown, a relationship expert, successful couples focus a lot of energy on rebuilding respect, as well, since all of that is lost the moment cheating occurs. He tells Bustle the person who cheated will need to check in with their partner to see what it is, specifically, that they need to do in order to fix what was broken.

Can a relationship survive a cheating affair?

In practice, it tends to be uncommon for a relationship to survive instances of cheating. One study found that only about 16 percent of couples who’d experienced unfaithfulness were able to work it out. (Although, of course, this is a hard metric to measure—how long after an affair does a couple need to stay together to claim “success”?)

Is it easier to move forward when one partner cheats?

But that doesn’t mean it’s actually gotten easier to move forward when one partner cheats on another. If there is one thing experts agree on when it comes to dealing with infidelity, it’s that while recovery is possible, rebuilding a healthy relationship is hard work.

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