If you feel the temptation to cheat on your partner, you should seriously consider refraining, confessing your feelings to your partner and handling the situation together, whether that means enrolling in couple's counseling or moving on with your lives, separately.
Settling into a relationship will not always mean smooth sailing. Everyone encounters their rough seas, and the key to overcoming a rocky phase deciding together how to handle the situation. Whether there is a physical attraction, a fear of monogamy or the need for risk and excitement, there are ways couples can deal with these feelings before the deed is done.
First of all, you need to be upfront and honest with your partner. This sounds extremely difficult, but it is important to be straight forward and to explain to your partner just what you are thinking and feeling. By doing so, you may be able to put your relationship back on track before you both go down a road that is better left untraveled.
After you have spoken with your partner, you may decide to embark on couple's counseling. This may be a great approach to deal with certain commitment and fidelity problems at hand. A professional counselor may be able to provide excellent advice and recommendations on how to handle the problems within the relationship. You and your significant other might be able to come to certain resolutions that will help you both to move forward.
While enrolled in or post your counseling sessions, you and your partner could find yourselves at a crossroad. There is the definite possibility that the relationship has run its course, and it's time for both of you to part ways. If this is the case, at least catching yourself before cheating saved the both of you a lot of emotional heartache. On the other hand, honesty and counseling may have repaired your relationship, and you both have the opportunity to start anew, together.
When you feel the need or temptation to cheat, take the time to think about all possible repercussions of the decision you are about to make. Consider how much your current relationship and partner mean to you and whether you're willing to salvage what you have before you move on.
