Yes it is—at least according to this study.
It’s an April Fool’s joke—get it?
It’s funny because, as everyone knows, cheating on your spouse—even with your spouse’s permission (which means it’s not technically cheating then, right?)—always does harm to MRs (“monogamous relationships”). And so it does: because if you’re cheating with your partner’s permission… well, then you’re not in a monogamous relationship anymore then, are you? Which means we can safely say that cheating actually destroys MRs. Of course, there are a lot of stable, happy CRs out there—committed relationships—that aren’t MRs. But we’ll save them for next April 1.
It’s about goddam time you linked to that.
You got rickrolled!
@2: Did you click “Continue reading…”?
NCBI … correct.
ROFL … roflmao
suckers.
Darn it, I clicked on “continue reading” expecting to see Rick Astley (because of @2).
Interestingly, though, I used to know a guy who told me he treated his wife better during a period when he was cheating on her because the guilt he felt made him want to be a better husband. I suggested that if he wanted to be a better husband the way to achieve that was by not cheating.
April Fool’s Day sucks for this very reason; someone gets your hopes up about something cool/interesting* and then disappoints. There should be laughter or feeling foolish, not lame-o Rick Rolls.
*Obviously, Discover Blog doesn’t share my view on whether an infidelity study constitutes interesting.
It’s funny because it’s true.
@6 or they act all dickish to you and then after you sit there are freak out for a moment, are all like j/k!
Like my immunology prof today who pretended we were going to have a pop quiz… to a class of grade-obssessed type A students. I think I missed the first 7 minutes of lecture recovering from shock.
I hate April Fools’ Day.
@8 April fool’s day was created so we could screw with uptight people like yourself with immunity for one day because it’s so damn funny.
April Fools Day can be abused so many ways.
For instance, today my girlfriend left me a hysterical voicemail in which she and her brother frantically told me about how they were attempting to stave off the attacks of an angry Triffid.
I called her back and told her that one of the following was true, and the other was an April Fools Day joke.
A. I thought we should see other people.
B. I had a stress fracture in my leg.
@10 so which one is true?
Thanks. My wife wants me to stop talking about Rick Astley now.
@11: Not the one she thought. I actually do have a stress fracture.