{"id":54572,"date":"2025-11-28T09:53:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T09:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/54572\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T09:53:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T09:53:14","slug":"nyc-divorce-lawyer-reveals-surprising-answer-to-who-cheats-more-men-or-women-the-truth-is-way-wilder-than-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/54572\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC divorce lawyer reveals surprising answer to who cheats more: Men or women? The truth is way wilder than you think"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Infidelity doesn\u2019t always begin with a dramatic affair or a secret message, it often starts quietly, in moments most couples overlook. And while everyone loves to debate whether men or women are the \u201cbigger cheaters,\u201d the truth hides in the stories that only divorce lawyers get to hear.<\/p>\n

\"Divorce Divorce lawyer reveals key differences in how men and women handle infidelity. (Freepik) <\/p>\n

James Joseph Sexton, an American attorney who specialises in divorce<\/a> and family law in New York, reveals in one of his videos the surprising answer to who cheats more\u2014men or women. (Also read: Groom slaps child for disturbing photoshoot: Internet debates if parents must control kids or let them loose at weddings<\/a> )<\/p>\n

Who cheats more<\/p>\n

According to Sexton, the answer is clear. \u201cI would say in my experience, men cheat more, but women cheat better,\u201d he says. \u201cWomen go big or go home. Men just do dumb sh*t a lot of the time.\u201d<\/p>\n

He explains that not all cheating is the same. \u201cThere\u2019s a difference between a dalliance and an affair,\u201d Sexton notes. \u201cA dalliance is doing something stupid and fooling around with someone. An affair is a full-on thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Do men and women cheat differently<\/p>\n

Sexton believes they do, and their reactions also differ dramatically. \u201cMen and women approach cheating<\/a> differently, in my experience. And they react to cheating differently in my experience,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

When a man discovers his wife cheated, Sexton says the first question is often physical: \u201cDid you have sex with him?\u201d But when a woman finds out her husband cheated, the first question is emotional: \u201cDo you love her?\u201d<\/p>\n

Sexton explains that this difference reveals underlying fears and insecurities: “Men worry about territory or ‘property,’ while women worry about emotional replacement. \u201cIt says something about our internal biases about how we approach our spouse and approach marriage<\/a>,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n

Who gets caught more<\/p>\n

Even though Sexton says both men and women cheat \u201ca lot,\u201d there\u2019s one major difference: \u201cMen get caught more often in my experience than women do. Women, when they cheat, are better about it in terms of how they hide it.\u201d<\/p>\n

After decades of watching marriages fall apart, Sexton\u2019s conclusion is straightforward: \u201cBoth men and women cheat, but they do it differently, for different reasons, and with very different levels of stealth.<\/p>\n

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This article is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional advice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Infidelity doesn\u2019t always begin with a dramatic affair or a secret message, it often starts quietly, in moments…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[20461,19276,29962,29963,29960,29961,9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":["post-54572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-cheating","tag-couple","tag-divorce-lawyers","tag-emotional-replacement","tag-infidelity","tag-men-vs-women","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}