Unfaithfulness would probably not fit the definition for pandemic but that is not to say that it isn't an issue, isn't prevalent, and isn't growing. The statistics that you hear are usually something "% of men/women cheat on their spouses over the period of their marriage." That means that a person who has a single affair over a 20-year period is counted the same as someone who is a habitual cheater. This makes it difficult to grasp what the numbers really mean and where they are trending. Data collection is also challenging for obvious reasons.

Finally, I don't know if the #s are different for military marriages versus the overall population though the separations that are part of military families could certainly lead to higher incidence.

LifeTwo is currently working on a series of posts to shed more on the topic since it is such an area of interest. Here are the posts we've done so far on infidelity.

Wesley Hein
Wesley [at] lifetwo [dot] com
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