Infidelity and joint income

The family is supposed to be the basic unit of our societies. The concept of family ranges from a small nuclear family, consisting of a father, mother and descendants or children, to an extended family, where grandparents also live with them. A characteristic of a family is also a joint household or, in colloquial terms, joint income and/or expenses. And we usually assume, ideally, that only children are without income, or that only children are dependent members of such a joint household. When creating a family, most people also count on the long-term sustainability of this community.

An extended family or a small nuclear family does not include additional partners and additional children who are not descendants of those who entered into a marriage. Nevertheless, throughout history we have known divorces and so-called descendants of previous unions. We also know widows and widowers and single parenthood as a result of the death of a mother or father. We also know orphans, who are children without living parents. We know of illegitimate and unrecognized children and even abandoned and abandoned children. And we also know of extramarital affairs with other intimate partners, the consequences of which are also illegitimate children.

Precisely because of the joint household, or joint income and expenses, the financial situation in many families also breaks down in the case of unknown children or children born outside the existing marriage. It also breaks down financially in the case of costs related to adultery or so-called cheating.

The Marriage or Family Act does not provide for financial compensation against a cheated spouse. An outing with a lover or lovers costs money and in this way the so-called joint household is damaged. Gifts to lovers or lovers, or in short, to participants in love or intimate affairs outside the existing marriage and joint household, could also be classified as financial costs, which are often hidden. Most likely, most spouses are not familiar with the so-called alimony and or expenses for children, which are the result of such extramarital affairs or cheating or intimate affairs.

In short, we can conclude that sexual infidelity in a marriage also damages the joint household. Intimate affairs or cheating on partners not only cause a consequent loss of trust in sexual fidelity in a marriage and painful memories of their own foolish belief in a joint intimate relationship forever in the deceived intimate partners who lived in a joint household.