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Cheating can be beneficial to your relationship or marriage, expert says

This dating expert explains why some relationships grow stronger after recovering from an affair.

Cheating can actually be a good thing for your relationship [Credit: Dean Mitchell  Getty]

Esther Perel, a US based sex and relationship therapist says that learning and healing after an affair can a relationship grow stronger. The revelation of an affair makes people take stock of their marriage, and really look at it with from a critical perspective. 

Of course what we've always known cheating to cause is a creation of doubts and pulling apart of whatever structure the relationship has been built on.

Once a partner cheats, it becomes hard to trust again or to form a connection as strong as what you had before their eyes strayed, even if it was one time.

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However in a stark contrast to everything we seemingly know about cheating, Esther Perel claims cheating doesn't have to be the end of your relationship.

“Many affairs are break-ups, but some affairs are make-ups,” Perel tells The Guardian UK.

The therapist is against infidelity and unfaithfulness among partners but she believes that when it does happen, divorce shouldn’t be the only option. Reconciliation, a chance to patch things up, move on from that occurrence should be on the cards.

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“I think people should be able to determine for themselves the choices that they will make and the consequences thereof,” she says.

“To just push people to [breakups] and to think that divorce is always the better solution when it dissolves all the family bonds… Entire lives are intertwined with a marriage.”

Perel insists that the process of recovery could help improve a relationship because it makes couples actually look at the underlying issues in their relationships and actually deal with them.

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“Sometimes the relationship that comes out is stronger, and more honest and deeper than the one that existed before because people finally step up.”

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