Almost half of Filipinos willing to trust cheating partners again, survey says

In the Philippines, cheating comes easy in a relationship – but so does forgiveness, according to a recent survey.Though one in four Filipinos had seen or experienced infidelity, about 43 per cent said they were willing to trust their partner again if the latter were to cheat, The Inquirer newspaper reported, citing the latest survey by social research institution Social Weather Stations.About 36 per cent said they could not trust their cheating partner, while 19 per cent were undecided.The nationwide survey, conducted through face-to-face interviews with 1,200 adults over a week in November, found that 27 per cent of participants said they “had personally witnessed or experienced some form of cheating in a relationship”.Physical and emotional cheating were the most common forms, at 11 per cent. The survey defined physical cheating as “engaging in sexual and intimate activities with someone else” and emotional cheating as “talking with another person about a problem instead of with one’s own partner, or having romantic feelings for another person even though there is no physical relationship”.These were followed by two online forms of infidelity at 6 per cent: cyber cheating – “having other social media account[s] without the partner’s knowledge, or secretly chatting with other people” – and object cheating – “giving too much attention to games, cellphones, or other material objects that one no longer has time for their partner”.