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While infidelity has traditionally been regarded as a masculine trait, statistics suggest an increasing number of women are cheating on their husbands.

And as an accredited coach and counsellor specialising in women over 50, I have noticed the increasing frequency of female infidelity.

It seems to me that while once women would have felt obliged to stick at an ailing marriage, these days they don’t feel so compelled to stay.

But if women are catching up with their cheating husbands when it comes to having an affair, one thing hasn’t changed.

While in the past some wives have been prepared to forgive their straying husbands, experts say that men are far less likely to do the same.

Feminism may have given women the inclination – and the power – to be as unfaithful as their husbands, but male attitudes to their wives haven’t yet caught up.

‘Men can forgive themselves for their indiscretions, but find it much harder to forgive their partners for the same,’ says therapist Phillip Hodson, Fellow of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.

‘For a betrayed woman, an affair is an offence against her dignity. For a betrayed man, it’s an offence against his manhood. It goes right to the core of his identity.’

I don’t think women’s reasons for having affairs is that different from men’s,’ says Paula Hall. ‘They’re looking for attention and affection and that’s going to include sex.’

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