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Moral Hypocrisy Both Justifies and Facilitates Infidelity

Romantic infidelity is disturbingly common, with some researchers estimating that infidelity impacts up to 25% of all marriages and larger percentages of dating and cohabitating relationships (Fincham and May, 2017). Moreover, marriage therapists consider sexual infidelity as one of the most difficult issues to successfully treat.

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  • sashinator (edited 5 years ago)
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    As the authors explain, moral hypocrisy is judging “one's own wrongdoings as less problematic or immoral than the identical wrongdoings of others”

    So as long as one views infidelity of others or one’s partner as moral and as unproblematic as oneself there’s no problem?

    How is this psychology?

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