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The Guardian // Entertainment // Books

Affairs by Juliet Rosenfeld review – the truth about why we cheat

Thursday 3rd April 2025, 8:00AM

A psychotherapist explores the nature of infidelity through a series of case studiesAffairs are hot stuff. The antics of cheating partners have been hooking audiences from the earliest days of storytelling to modern romcoms and hit podcasts by relationship experts.It is only natural, then, that a psychotherapist turned author specialising in long-term relationships would want in on the action. “Why do we have affairs?” asks Juliet Rosenfeld in the introduction to her second book, which promises to look at infidelity – something that one in five of us will be affected by – “in a way that we usually don’t”. Her first book, The State of Disbelief, explored her experience of mourning after the death of her husband, Andrew. Continue reading...

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