Opportunistic sexual liaison revealed how easy it is to cheat

Q. For the past four months I have been involved in an opportunistic sexual liaison with a work colleague, which she has just called time on.

It was exciting while it lasted and it made going to work more interesting. But it didn’t actually mean much to me so I am glad it is over. I love my wife and I don’t want to do anything to jeopardise my marriage so I have no intention of telling her what has happened but I am concerned that I found it so easy to cheat. Does that mean it will happen again?

A. Although Associated Press statistics suggest that 70% of married women and 54% of married men don’t know about their spouses’ extra-marital affairs, no adulterous partner should ever be arrogant enough to presume that his or her own desire to keep an affair secret will be enough to persuade the world to co-operate.