Men that travel a lot with their jobs.

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What would you say the average percentage would be of men that cheat that travel a lot with their jobs?

My uncle did/does.

How did you find out? I wouldn't have a clue if my husband did.

I'm not so sure, I think it also has to do with company culture. I work in tech - travelling with my last company was WILD, late nights, lots of alcohol, extremely inappropriate behaviour from the highest levels of (all very married) leadership, cheating/making out everywhere. My new company is still tech, but everyone seems to be far more chilled/non-cheaty! There's definitely still some sleeping around, but it's either 2 single co-workers, or the odd married one sleeping with people they meet at bars etc.

Tech! Or really any corporate with offices/clients/projects worldwide. But for me it's tech.

This is my husband. And he cheated while travelling

I work in IT with 99% men and travel for work frequently.
The men I work with are solid types who seem commited to and engaged in family life and aren't giving off any available vibes. You can never tell but they seem to value what they have and cherish family life.

My fiancé travels for work and works in the music industry. Ample opportunity to cheat. I dont lose sleep over it. If he cheated more fool him. We'd finish and I'd survive. I'm financially independent and have my own protected assets.
If I cheated my fiancé would finish with me also.

yup. I think lots of people walking around thinking ‘I know my partner they never would. I know them inside out. I trust them. I would eat my hat if I was wrong’ etc etc but we don’t know our partners as well as we think we do

Nice of him to let you know.

Well 50% of men cheat so I'd say of those who travel lots it's nearer 75%

Over 80%

Certainly in my experience working in Financial services, both genders cheat on work trips. However also plenty of people don’t. Work relationships are increasingly frowned upon.

Because he decided to leave me for OW. After this I did some digging and found evidence of previous mucking about with different OW (plural). Some colleagues, but not all.

Pre covid I would travel weekly for work, mostly with other colleagues. I wasn't aware of anyone cheating and unless they were paying for late night visitors I'd have known as we'd eat dinner and then hang out in a bar for the evening when we were away.

I imagine it is a lot easier to get a hook up nowadays with all of the apps available, so anyone that way inclined could do it no problem. The men I worked and travelled with seemed to really like their partners though.

Watching the news while reading this and suspect foreign correspondents and war reporters have propensity for cheating. So certain jobs are more likely to attract those who enjoy risky behaviour.

I was airline cabin crew years ago. Many of the pilots cheated (such a cliché). But by no means all of them - I often saw them rebuffing advances.

Absolutely this.

The apps are a cheater's paradise - full to the brim of married men travelling for work. These types cast their nets far and wide. Hotel bars, working girls, unsuspecting women on dating apps - they don't give a shit. Any hole will do.

My husband is a submersible pilot and work for Inkfish onboard a scientific research ship, he travels over 7 months of the year

So were the cabin crew cheaters as well? Does the cheating include the growing number of female pilots?

Any large global corporation/ industry. Oil in my case.

For sure frequent travel for work reasons would give opportunities to cheat if the individual is that way inclined.
My DH used to travel an awful lot for many, many years. Hand on heart, I never suspected anything and never had any reasons to be concerned.
Unbeknown to me, only found out relatively recently during various chars with his travelling co-workers, that he used to always moaning that he wanted to go home as soon as possible. Which is nice to know and I suspect it is because he really enjoys family life in general (he was the one really wanting children and the nice house and the rest of it). Also the working hours would be very long on such trips which no amount of fancy restaurants or hotel rooms can compensate once the novelty factor wears out.
I am under no illusion that I was just lucky with his behaviour. But, on the other hand, I never wasted time wondering if he did cheat or not.
Of all the many people I personally know travelling with work, I strongly suspect two husbands to be the type that would have possibly cheated in this way. The biggest shock was finding out one of the women cheated through work travel and ended up having an affair with a co-worker. She is unaware everyone and their dog knows about this!

Even worse on hook up sites such as Fab. Legions of men advertising meets in hotels.

I know a guy who goes to swinger and fetish clubs whilst he’s away for work. His profile says he’s in an “evolving ethical non-monogamous relationship”. His GF is home with their 6 month old baby and has no clue. I’m very tempted to send her the link to his profile but don’t want to get involved.

I used to work in a hotel on a business park. We had corporate rates agreed with the major businesses on the estate for their staff to stay during the week.

Of probably 50 men who stayed regularly sunday-thurs, at least 10 we knew explicitly were cheating (and one female).

• the two married (to others) employees who had the discrete notes in their booking preferences to be allocated interconnecting rooms

• the married man who would book a prostitute every single weekend. Liked her - he would order 2x fish and chips. Didn't like her, he would then order 1x fish and chips

• the married man who would sometimes stay at the weekends too, and he either got asked to be moved to a suite as his wife and kids were coming to stay, or he would keep his existing room on and a different woman would come and stay.

• multiple men would then also ask for their room to be cleaned by 10am so they could come back and use it (with a female colleage) over lunch, and then ask for it to be cleaned again afterwards.

• the man who always brought random women back from the nearby pub

And on it goes. All married or engaged, we kenw these men - they'd chat very regularly about their lives.

My husband is in the military so goes away months at a time, he obviously has ample opportunity if he wanted to (as do I, military wives have a bad rap too after all!) we know a fair few military personnel and spouses who have cheated.

I'm of the view if a man (or woman for that matter) is going to cheat they will find a way, I've been with my husband a long time, I trust him and have faith in our marriage. It's not something I give a lot of thought to tbh, but admittedly he's quite anti-social for a military bloke which probably helps 😂

Oh and these were just the ones where they were so blatant and open about what they were doing. Sometimes rooms would be unslept in too.

Remember sitting in Amsterdam on a work trip and the senior partner saw me and came to chat. He was vitriolic about having to be away from home leaving his wife to do everything and not seeing her and the kids. Then he huffed off home as soon as possible. Really nice guy. His co senior partner on his third wife extended his stay, was sleeping with a newly married senior associate and used prostitutes. So depends on the person really!