Andrew Solomon Quotes

I don't believe in open relationships. If you want to be with someone else, you shouldn't be in a relationship in the first place.

Infidelity is a deal breaker for me. I've broken up with people over it. You can't do monogamy 90 percent of the time.

Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.

In my experience, I think there's must ado about fidelity and infidelity. I think sometimes true emotional relationships can go beyond those.

Let's call cheating what it is: a complete betrayal of trust. Cheaters are people who have a lot of stuff to work out and they're working it out on your time and with your heart. Some cheaters might give you an excuse, some might not have one at all, some might even blame you. No one can tell you exactly what to do when faced with this very complicated and painful situation. But the bottom line is, is this what you had hoped for in a relationship?

Men are different. When they are in love they may also have other girlfriends.

I try not to cheat on my boyfriends when I have them.

Although I wrote a book about infidelity around the world, I ended up concluding that fidelity is quite a good idea.

I'm sure that if I had a partner and that partner cheated on me, that I would be devastated if we were in a committed, monogamous relationship. So of course, it's a devastating thing.

How can you tell your wife you are just popping out to play a match and then not come back for five days?

I'm not just a cuckolded wife.

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.

There exists no culture in which adultery is unknown, no cultural device or code that extinguishes philandering.

I have a lot of disrespect for people who cheat. I feel like if you're in a position in a relationship where you want to see other people, and the opportunity to cheat comes up, don't.

There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I won't stand for that.

Men are only as loyal as their options.

Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined.

I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.

Next to hurting my family, cheating on me is the worst thing someone could do.

You have nothing if you're texting a guy in a relationship. We can text six women a minute. We can text it and push 'reply all.' I mean, since we're lying, we might as well lie to everybody.

You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.

Infidelity is horrible - there's nothing worse than that; it's devastating.

Men don't deceive their wives unless they love them. When they love them most, they deceive them. It's a form of fidelity, their deceit.

There is no justification for having an affair.

Because I've been on the receiving end of infidelity, I know how much it hurts.