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Americans Canadians May Share Views on Cheating

June 16th, 2010 by The Babe

Sun Media and Leger Marketing conducted a confidential survey of more than 1,500 Canadians coast to coast to learn their thoughts on who cheats and why. The results are somewhat surprising in some areas and I’m thinking that same survey carried out across the border the results would be similar. Americans and Canadians have many views in common…….

One in three Canadians say they’ve had an affair, with Ontarians and Quebecers the most likely to have stepped out on a partner (36% and 34% respectively).
Married men are much more likely to have cheated than married women (13% vs. 8%) although when it comes to having a physical relationship with someone else who is married, the genders are nearly neck and neck.
More than half of Canadians believe everyone thinks about cheating at some point.
Over a third of Canadians figure cheating doesn’t mean a lack of love for one’s partner, while 18% of Canadians think cheating once can actually be positive for a relationship.
Quebeckers are especially forgiving, or at least understanding, of infidelity – 53% of respondents in La Belle Province said cheating on someone doesn’t mean you don’t love them, and 28% said a one-off affair can actually be beneficial to the relationship.
A startling 40% of Canadians say they know they were cheated on at some point
Only 13% of Canadians think being unhappily married but staying together for the kids’ sake is
justification for cheating.
Apparently getting back at a cheating spouse is only a reasonable excuse for 18% of those surveyed.
Four in five of Canadians would confront their significant others if they suspected them of cheating.
60% of Canadians would check their credit card statements or phone bills for evidence, and nearly half of Canadians would go so far as to follow their partners to see where they were wandering to.
If amateur private eye activities unearthed evidence of an affair, 50% would confront their partners with the proof and talk about it (with women being more likely to take this approach than men).
Two out of five Canadians would ask if their partner was cheating and give him or her a chance to come clean before they waved the evidence in their face..

And if their partners did “fess up”, what then?

29% would end the relationship then and there
43% of Canadians would keep our options open and try to work it out.
Only 10% of Canadians would automatically forgive our partner’s transgressions.

Ultimately forgiving the spouse or partner could depend on the nature of the affair.
Nearly two thirds of Canadians would find our significant other having an affair with our best friend the hardest to forgive
28% said it would be most difficult if it was someone at work
One in four thought an ex would be the biggest blow.

When we seek out that old boyfriend or girlfriend on Facebook, are we innocently checking in to see how that person’s life is going? Or are we secretly hoping for a confidential hookup?

77% of Canadians admit that we’ve been in contact with someone we used to be in a relationship with, though it’s nearly split down the middle when it comes to the number of Canadians who initiated the contact and those of Canadians who found ourselves on the receiving end of an ex reaching out.
Just over half of Canadians figure Facebook and other social networking sites are the best way to
re-establish contact with a previous partner,
only 10% of Canadians think looking up an former flame is a big no-no.
two out of five of Canadians would be willing to chat with an ex-lover because we might be able
to become friends again.
Another two out of five would exchange cursory updates but not try to carry on communication.
Folks in British Columbia. were much more open to the idea of being friends with an ex (53%) than those in Saskatchewan and Manitoba (35%), while Quebecers were the most likely to say a firm “non!” – what’s in the past is in the past.
In general, they found women are more likely to think that reconnecting with a past lover is a bad idea.
A full third of those surveyed believe that all this talk of being friends with exes is baloney, and the only reason former flames try to open lines of communication is to re-establish a romantic relationship.
Nearly two-thirds of Canadians would never get back together with an ex,
one in five Canadians pine for the one that got away, and would do anything to re-ignite a specific previous relationship.