Oelala: it's the time of year to cheat

Nothing sultry holidays in sight, you must mean naughty times. Just pay a little extra attention to your man – or woman – this week. Does he suddenly have to work overtime? Is he suddenly going to the gym four times while he usually just lounges on the couch until he sees double? Well, he’s home very late after that ‘one drink with that one colleague you-know-who, Dennis from HR, you know him right?‘. .

Put your feelers out, because this is exactly the time of year when people take a crooked skate. And not because it's cold enough to skate, no, we’re being unfaithful, just right before the holidays begin. Man and woman. There’s a reason for that. We are actually more inclined to enjoy all that is not allowed just a little longer before we sit obediently plucking the turkey with the whole in-laws.

According to websites specifically made for married people who want to cheat (yes, it exists), infidelity is committed around the end of November because partners aren’t really paying attention. This time of year is generally very busy with year-end deadlines at work, all those Christmas parties with friends, acquaintances, , colleagues and the neighbor, that it goes unnoticed if someone is a little less at home. Cheating can happen right now because it’s a chaotic time of year. We are packed with all sorts of appointments and obligations, and hey, then you can just sneak in that exciting flame.

When Christmas actually arrives, it’s of course all about sitting nicely on the couch, then you can’t kiss a lover at the bar anymore, because then you’ll get caught. It turns out that as much as 80 percent of cheaters still cheat during this week of the year. That’s a lot, a whole lot. They’ll be sitting there hypocritically sweetly writing a Sinterklaas poem, while just a week earlier they were still cuddling intimately with someone else. It happens. Those terrible sites are there for a reason, unfortunately.

But you now know for sure that you need to be sharp for a bit, at this time of the year. You want to hear that whole overtime thing officially from his boss first, right? And at that party with colleague clumsy from HR, you just spontaneously join in. You were in the area, that idea.