Lifestyle Don't miss out on the headlines from Lifestyle. Followed categories will be added to My News. Discovering your other-half is cheating on you is a deeply traumatic experience – but women are now exposing a common act men commit that further adds insult to injury.
After perpetrating the ultimate betrayal, guilty men often go to extreme lengths to cover it up, telling an elaborate lies as justification. But some guys go too far with their false depiction of the truth, and now women who have been cheated on are having the last laugh, airing the “bizarre excuses” they’ve been told by their adulterous spouse. “‘You’ve gained weight’.
.. I was 7 months pregnant.
With his child,” one ex-wife shared. “Mine said, ‘you’re at work and I don’t see you much anymore’. We worked at the same place,” revealed another.
“‘You’re just too depressed to pay attention to me’. I had just miscarried our baby,” said someone else. While the lies seem so obvious, leaving many to question why a guilty party would dare claim something so blatantly not true, Melbourne psychologist Carly Dober explained the insidious act actually stems from an innate human need to minimise the damage.
But don’t be fooled. It’s entirely selfish, she told news.com.
au. “Infidelity and hurting someone who cares for you is a very, very difficult thing to talk about and to fess up to,” Ms Dober, who works at Melbourne’s Enriching Lives Psychology clinic , said. “Men can .
