This is where 85% of affairs start
A dating expert explains why 85% of affairs take place in this one location…
If you knew there was one location where an affair was most likely to happen, you would probably not want your partner to go there.
But what if that location was impossible to avoid – like, say, the workplace?
According to LADbible, many dating experts have revealed that an affair is most likely to start at someone’s workplace. Many also agree that this isn’t particularly surprising.
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In a recent appearance on 'The Front Row Seat' with Ken Coleman podcast, Dr John Delony, a mental and emotional health expert, explained why workplace affairs are so common.
Podcast host Ken Coleman cited a study that found “85% of affairs start at work, and one in five employees confess to being unfaithful with a colleague”.
Delony went on to explain why he believes workplace affairs happen so frequently.
"We've asked our spouses to be everything. They have to be co-earners, co-parents, co-house runners.
"You have to be hot until you're 95 and still sleeping together. You have to like the same things, go to the same events, eat the same foods.
"No human being can bear the weight that unskilled modern marriage is putting on a single person. So, what you have is two people who are good at co-managing a household but have absolutely no shared purpose or sense of building something together."
Traditional home life can easily become boring and mundane, leading spouses to seek solace with the people they spend a lot of time with – such as colleagues.
"Then I go to work, and me and two amazing women are working together on a project that's going to help 10 million people. Now we have shared purpose, we're talking about how we feel about things, we have a goal, we have metrics – I’m spending more time with her or him than I am with my spouse.
"And the time we're spending together is rich – we're laughing, telling jokes… Oh my gosh, of course [affairs] happen at work!"
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Despite knowing they are risking almost every aspect of their lives, Delony believes people are still willing to take the chance for the sheer excitement that an affair brings.
"It's oxygen," he said, before asking: "How many of us go home, pull into our street, and just sigh?
"Even when it's negative [at work], y’all are negative together. It's you two against the boss, you two against the customer, you two against the salesman."
Delony also pointed out that, although colleagues spend a lot of time together, they don’t see the reality of living with the real you.
"They don't see your snot rags by the bed, they don't see you not flushing the toilet, they don’t see any of the stuff that makes you you."
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