Infidelity as an act is condemned, more than understood. It is often derided as an outcome of an insatiable lust or a polygamist psyche. As I started working on a research project to find out why people engage in infidelity, I had it very clear that I would look at the infidel as a person with unfulfilled needs, a misunderstood individual who was led by certain circumstances to get involved with someone other than the one he/she was committed to. What was even more shocking was the fact that ‘Infidelity is universal’; it starts at a mental level, develops at an emotional level and may or may not manifest itself in the physical sense. Infidelity as an occurrence has been prevalent in our society for ages. Quite often, the doings of the infidel were a secret locked up within the household. It is only in recent times that acts of infidelity are coming out in the open. Infidelity on the mental and emotional levels is more ub...