Heartbreak
Women feel heartbreak when their men cheat.
Men feel jealousy when their women cheat, which is a different emotion - see the last bold paragraph title below.
Heartbreak is caused by love, not sex.
Women feel heartbreak when they believe their man is falling in love with another woman. The romantic or emotional aspect of the cheating is what matters, not the sex. Women feel heartbreak if they learn their man is caring for or supporting another woman. In particular, women feel heartbreak if a man is spending money on another woman to please her.
Women do not feel heartbreak if their man only wanted sex with another woman. They do not, for example, feel heartbreak if a man spends money on a woman just to get sex.
Women can only feel heartbreak if they are infatuated.
Women can only feel heartbreak for a man if they are infatuated with that man. And women are only infatuated with any one man for 8 months. So women in relationships of more than 8 months can no longer have their hearts broken by their men.
Heartbreak is stronger the more infatuated the woman is.
Infatuation and heartbreak grow stronger the longer a woman has been in a relationship. After a month, infatuation and heartbreak are still relatively week. After 7 months, infatuation and heartbreak are very strong.
Heartbreak never stops.
Unlike jealousy, heartbreak cannot be stopped by retaliating against the woman. A jealous man will stop feeling jealousy if gets back at his woman. A heartbroken woman will still feel heartbreak even if she gets back at her man.
Women may also feel humiliation if their man cheats.
If a woman's friends learn that her man cheated on her, she maybe embarrassed and feel the negative emotion of humiliation. If nobody else knows about a man's cheating, then woman will not also feel humiliation.
Women may also revenge is their man cheats.
Women may also feel the negative emotion of revenge if their man cheats. It depends on the details of the cheating.
The woman can only feel revenge if the man was deceptive. If a man lied about his cheating, the woman can feel revenge. If a man was completely honest about everything he did, a woman cannot feel revenge about the cheating.
Assuming the man was deceptive, a woman will only feel revenge if she was harmed. If she was publicly humiliated, for example, she will feel revenge. If she wasn't publicly humiliated, she will only feel revenge if she believes the heartbreak is harm by itself. Retaliating against the man will stop the feeling of revenge, but not the feeling of heartbreak.
Women are more careful after feeling heartbreak once.
Women who have not felt heartbreak are far less cautious about relationships. They have not yet felt how unhappy heartbreak can be. Woman who have had their hearts broken are more skeptical of men. They have learned the hard way to watch for lotharios.
Men feel jealousy when their women cheat, which is a different emotion - see the last bold paragraph title below.
Heartbreak is caused by love, not sex.
Women feel heartbreak when they believe their man is falling in love with another woman. The romantic or emotional aspect of the cheating is what matters, not the sex. Women feel heartbreak if they learn their man is caring for or supporting another woman. In particular, women feel heartbreak if a man is spending money on another woman to please her.
Women do not feel heartbreak if their man only wanted sex with another woman. They do not, for example, feel heartbreak if a man spends money on a woman just to get sex.
Women can only feel heartbreak if they are infatuated.
Women can only feel heartbreak for a man if they are infatuated with that man. And women are only infatuated with any one man for 8 months. So women in relationships of more than 8 months can no longer have their hearts broken by their men.
Heartbreak is stronger the more infatuated the woman is.
Infatuation and heartbreak grow stronger the longer a woman has been in a relationship. After a month, infatuation and heartbreak are still relatively week. After 7 months, infatuation and heartbreak are very strong.
Heartbreak never stops.
Unlike jealousy, heartbreak cannot be stopped by retaliating against the woman. A jealous man will stop feeling jealousy if gets back at his woman. A heartbroken woman will still feel heartbreak even if she gets back at her man.
Women may also feel humiliation if their man cheats.
If a woman's friends learn that her man cheated on her, she maybe embarrassed and feel the negative emotion of humiliation. If nobody else knows about a man's cheating, then woman will not also feel humiliation.
Women may also revenge is their man cheats.
Women may also feel the negative emotion of revenge if their man cheats. It depends on the details of the cheating.
The woman can only feel revenge if the man was deceptive. If a man lied about his cheating, the woman can feel revenge. If a man was completely honest about everything he did, a woman cannot feel revenge about the cheating.
Assuming the man was deceptive, a woman will only feel revenge if she was harmed. If she was publicly humiliated, for example, she will feel revenge. If she wasn't publicly humiliated, she will only feel revenge if she believes the heartbreak is harm by itself. Retaliating against the man will stop the feeling of revenge, but not the feeling of heartbreak.
Women are more careful after feeling heartbreak once.
Women who have not felt heartbreak are far less cautious about relationships. They have not yet felt how unhappy heartbreak can be. Woman who have had their hearts broken are more skeptical of men. They have learned the hard way to watch for lotharios.
Men feel jealousy, not heartbreak, when their women cheat.
While heartbreak and jealousy are both negative emotions caused by cheating, they have two key differences: their causes and ability to be stopped.
While heartbreak is caused by love, jealousy is caused by sex. Women feel heartbreak when their man shows signs of falling in love with another woman. Men feel jealousy when their woman has sex with another man. You can see the difference in the questions that each gender ask when learning of cheating. Women are most concerned with how much money was spent on the other woman. Men are most concerned with the type of sex that the other man enjoyed.
While heartbreak cannot be stopped, jealousy can be. Women do not stop heartbreak if they retaliate against the man. Men stop feeling jealousy if they retaliate.
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