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ABSTRACT
Sexual infidelity can have a devastating impact on the couple’s relationship, as well as the individual’s life. Studies shows that many Iranian couples ask for divorce after experiencing sexual infidelity. This qualitative study explores the effects of sexual infidelity on Iranian attachment injured women asking for divorce. In this cultural study, 32 women with betrayal experience were interviewed. All interviews were transcribed word by word and were analyzed using thematic analysis. The results show the impacts of sexual betrayal, as an attachment injury, can be classified into four themes including 1) sexual relationships, 2) emotional effects, 3) cognitive effects and 4) behavioral effects. It has been demonstrated that attachment injury caused by infidelity damages the cultural foundation of mutual trust within partners. Infidelity as an attachment injury is also discussed.
Acknowledgments
The authors gratefully thank the participants, without whom this study would not have been possible.
Disclosure statement
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
Ethical standards and informed consent
The content of this paper is part of the Ph.D. thesis of the first author. This study was conducted under the supervision of Isfahan University Review Board. All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000. Informed consent was obtained from all participants for being included in the study.