Do status and money make it impossible for a married man to keep it in his trousers?

[neverbetrickedagain]

My DH said this to a friend of his. I've always believed this to be just a bullshit excuse for cheating. Those who want to cheat, they will. Regardless of their finances or influence. I'm also massively disappointed by my DH who cheated every time I went to visit my parents. I found out that every time he went out he was checking out women, making comments about them with friends and generally was too aware of girls and women around him. Somehow I expected a married man with kids, who has sown his wild oats in abundance before he got married, to behave differently and not drool over every good-looking woman like he were a teenager.
I would really appreciate your views on this - are all men like this deep down inside? I do have similar experiences with some bf before I got married. And yet I can't possibly imagine my dad or brother behaving this way... but I'm biased when it comes to them naturally. Anyway, am I just naive when it comes to men?

But I can't help wondering if this is all I can expect from men

You say you have kids, do you have a son?

I hope not if that's what you think your son will turn out like!

we have two sons. I don't won't them to turn out like him - that's why I'm getting out.

Going against the grain a bit. I believe that status and money do allow men to cheat more. It allows them to cover things up more easily. Money gives them power - not only over their wives (who don't want to upset the status quo) but over who they are shagging. It's quite unglamorous to be shagging your married man down a back alley because he doesn't have another place where his wife doesn't live or he can't afford a hotel. It's far more appealing to be put up in the Ritz or flown across the world by a man you are having sex with. Even though both situations are as sordid as each other.

Those who want to cheat will do so no matter how rich or poor they are.

Not all rich men are cheaters, just like not all pretty women are.

Your local bin man, post man, milkman bus driver or butcher is as likely to cheat as any other man if they are so inclined.

Your husband clearly hasn't grown up and would have been better as a bachelor. What a terrible role model as a father.

Financially comfortable people tend to be more intelligent, motivated, socially able, attractive..... Qualities that make people succeed in life are the same qualities that are more attractive to others. So that brings high quality temptations which are hard to resist, more opportunities to cheat and also a social environment that is much wider so you're unlikely to be caught.

People are generally as faithful as their options, including women. That's especially true as we get older and realise life is short, why resist temptation if you're not getting enough/any/as good as you want at home and there's little possibility of being caught.