by Maria Yanicki

Created on: July 28, 2011   Last Updated: July 29, 2011

To put it simply, I don't think so. If you really consider it, men always seem more willing to work out their problems when it comes to being married and having children than women are. Women always say that men are scared of commitment, but men are also always the first to jump up and try to fix things if some sort of problem comes up. You might argue with me on this one, because I admit, men can and do withdraw, but their relationships are all based on attraction for their women, not whether she's being nice an understanding and doing things to show how much she loves him or not.

And considering that, one would think that with all the effort women put into their relationships, they'd be the first to fight for it when things go wrong. And yet, women are also the first to give up when things get too rough. Women are responsible for initiating 70% of all divorces. Sure, I admit, some are needed because the guy is abusive or something, probably around 4% of all marriages (my estimate because there are a ton of reasons for divorce) end because someone is being physically or emotionally abusive.

Perhaps women grow up over their marriages, their eyes open to how young and obsessed she was being when they weren't married. And that's when she probably starts seeing reasons to not work so much anymore. Maybe she figures that now that she has him, she'll always have him, which is just not true. No one thinks they'll get divorced, and then suddenly you are.

So why do we cheat? Usually, we're not satisfied with what we have in some area of our relationship. With men, you might be surprised to hear, it's actually more emotional dissatisfaction than sexual. Men are easy to read, they're not rocket science. Unfortunately, most women read them the wrong way. They think all men want the same thing, when it's just not true. Men want marriage and commitment just as much as we do. Men have a different way of doing things though, which doesn't make sense to us women, but perfect sense to him. And usually when REAL men cheat, they're unsatisfied with something in the relationship and they're trying to make up for it. (I say real men because some men are just plain immature and don't know what or who they're hurting by playing around.)

Women are usually the same. We're not rocket science either, but most men don't make the effort to try and understand us (to the men that do, you will be richly rewarded, and I love you for it). We have a whole bunch of personal

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