Fidelity Poll is now closed...

Well, while it's quite hard to discern too much from the poll, it's easier to draw comparisons...

28% of men and 33% of women who voted claim have cheated on a partner.
31% of men and 25% of women who voted claim to have been cheated on by a partner

(This compares quite well against the poll I ran on a music forum where over 50% of people had cheated and been cheated on.)


57% of men and 56% of women who cheated confessed to their partner.
48% of men and 56% of women who cheated have been forgiven by a partner.

13% of men and 11% of women who cheated were not forgiven by their partner.


This is getting tricky now, because the votes might not work out, for instance I haven't been forgiven because I never cheated, but I never voted for that, so I'm guessing if you voted you haven't been forgiven, you meant that you had cheated and weren't forgiven, right?

64% of men and 50% of women who's partners cheated have forgiven their infidelity.
20% of men and 29% of women who's partners cheated did not forgive them.
17% of men and 22% of women who cheated lost their relationship because of their infidelity.

44% of men and 22% of women who's partners cheated saw their relationship ended because of that infidelity.

30% of men and 20% of women who voted are in some kind of ‘open’ relationship (one or two sided).

55% of men and 40% of women who voted have never cheated on a partner.
43% of men and 51% of women who voted have never been cheated on (as far as they know).

As I said it’s quite hard to glean too much from these results, for instance 64% of men have forgiven their partner, but then 44% of men claim that their relationship was destroyed by it. But that could be because although they forgave their partner their partner wasn’t happy and left anyway.

I’m mildly surprised by the high levels of forgiveness actually. I wonder how many of those that were cheated on went on to take a ‘revengefuck’, or at the very least told their partners straight up that they'd expect a free card to screw someone else one day in the future without any repercussions? Seems the least you could expect, although I guess it depends on the circumstances...