When your autistic husband has an emotional or physical affair!
When an autistic husband has an emotional or physical affair, it can leave his spouse wrestling with two painful questions: “Why did he do this?” and “How much of this has to do with autism?” Those questions deserve careful answers. Autism may be relevant to how someone communicates, experiences closeness, or understands expectations. But a diagnosis cannot tell us why a particular person cheated. Research on infidelity identifies several motivations across people generally; it does not establish the following as ten autism-specific causes. These are ten possible explanations to investigate—not conclusions to impose. 1. He seeks validation that temporarily changes how he feels about himself. Attention from another person can provide a powerful sense of being desirable, interesting, or appreciated. Someone who feels insecure may become attached to the experience of being admired. For an autistic husband who has personally experienced years of rejection or feeling different, th...
