Estranged Wife, Other Man’s Beloved: Perspectives of Filipino Women Involved in Extramarital Relationships

SAGE Open

Jemimah Gaite Pizarro¹ 

关键词: extramarital affair;    infidelity;    Filipino women;    family;    marriage;    cheating;   

DOI  :  10.1177/2158244014565823

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

Amid societal constraints, difficult repercussions, and double-standard morality on sexuality that favors the male members of their society, eight Filipino women engaged in extramarital affairs. To answer the question “Why did they commit and endure the affair?” a phenomenological life-world approach explored their perspectives regarding the triggering and perpetuating factors of their extramarital relationships (EMR). The analysis revealed their standpoints that negatively perceived marital relationship quality, paternal neglect of children, increasing opportunities for EMR, that is, workplace and mobile technology, and positively perceived extramarital–alternative familial relationship quality emerged as the women’s reasons behind the decision to engage and endure in the affair.

【 授权许可】

CC BY