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chooses, attracted to what looks like a sure thing.
Situational
Vaughan (1989) believed more than likely an affair results from an overall
situation, not from any seduction by a particular person. Smith and Doe (1998) reported
if women saw their men at the office when they were not present, they would become
physically ill. “One could argue greater opportunities for illicit sex in some professions;
entering a world with many available to them and opportunities for late meetings, travel,
and so forth” (Lawson, 1988, p.80). “One in three lovers were people they met at work,
that is, those who actually work in the same place as the respondents and another fifth in
work related meetings. Lovers who were "friends already" (13%) and those who met
through a friend (15%), have not been included, though they were acquaintances that had
been made through work or work related meetings” (Lawson, 1988, p.186). These
women are business acquaintances, contact through work, a client, a customer, even the
sister or wife of a colleague. Lawson (1988) reported the workplace was considered by
more than half of the men to have played some important part in their extramarital lives.
In particular, meeting new people there was very important. Whatever one's belief, work
is the one place where one can legitimately spend time in close contact with others
without the wife. People often spend time getting to know others in settings that foster
intimate connections.
Intimacy
Intimacy is supposed to be found at home, the place where people can be less
guarded than anywhere else and where support, encouragement, and services do not
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