We seem to have a little bit of a discrepancy in marriage and infidelity statistics. It's something that's bothered me for a while so I'm just going to put it out there. Statistics show roughly half of all married men cheat. 45 percent to 55 percent of all married women cheat. That's half. And, chances are, it's not the SAME half. In other words, the men who are cheating do not just so happen to be married to the women who are cheating.

On top of that, HALF of all marriages end in divorce. And any of us who has ever had a friend who was "the other woman" knows unfaithful men NEVER leave their wives. So...if half of all marriages end in divorce but the 50 percent who cheat never leave their wives, does that mean that the 50 percent who stay married are the ones cheating? So if you don't cheat, you divorce? It's one or the other? Or maybe it's just that statistics are a bunch of crap.

I look around and think about all the married people I know. No way are half of them cheating or being cheated on. No way. Okay, maybe I'm naive. What I noticed, though, is all over the Internet you see sources dropping this 50 percent statistic but not a single site I found actually said where this information came from. How do they KNOW these people are cheating? Did they install hidden cameras at their workplaces? Have they bugged everyone's phones? Are they just GUESSING?

No one has ever asked me about my fidelity or lack thereof. Not in an official capacity anyway. Has anyone ever asked you? Is that one of the questions the Census-takers ask? I don't recall that one. If you poll marital therapists on how many of their clients are cheating, you'll probably get an answer of "about half." That's why they're in therapy, fool. Tell the woman who is madly in love with her married boss that half of all marriages end in divorce. She'll tell you she WISHED that were true. She's waiting around for the day her boss's marriage fails. Maybe she'll get involved with him, maybe she'll just crush on him for thirty years, but chances are, he ain't leavin' that wife. Yes, infidelity causes divorce.

Supposedly a third of all divorces are due to infidelity. But what most of these mistresses don't realize is that even IF these men divorce their wives, they rarely marry the mistress. Only three percent do, according to statistics. And IF they marry the other woman, the likelihood of divorce hovers somewhere around 75 percent. Why? I think we all know the answer to that one. Let's all say it together:

IF HE CHEATS WITH YOU, HE'LL CHEAT ON YOU.

Statistics or not, we probably all could have told these women that a relationship like this is doomed in the first place. It would take a pretty secure woman to marry a man she'd known was cheating before and not be paranoid about his every move. And, as we all know, secure women don't engage in affairs with married men. I don't need to do a survey to know that much.

What's the percentage of cheating men who claim their wives don't understand them? They haven't had sex in eleven years? They never really loved her...just married her for convenience? Pretty high, I'd say. Statistics are only as good as their sources...yet people take them as fact. Everyone spouts off the, "Half of all men cheat" statistic but if you ask what the source of that statistic is, they'll likely say, "I don't know. I just heard it somewhere." In fact, MOST of this statistic-spouting starts with the same two words: "THEY say." Who are THEY? I think it's time to ask. Because it seems most of the time when you put all the statistics together in one place, they don't add up.