None other than the National Science Foundation and the University of Chicago, came out with a study that showed women are reporting that they are cheating on their husbands more than ever before. The number, while still only half that of men, is dramatically higher. In fact, the rate at which women are cheating has tripled in just 15 years, going from 5% in 1991 to 15% in 2006. So in the space of 15 years another 10/100 women have decide to cheat on their men. To be fair, the male infidelity rate has also gone up from 20 to 28%, a 40% increase in 15 years.

Anyway you look at it men and women are cheating on each other more than ever in modern history.

As usual I think I’ve cracked the code to this puzzle. In my book Crack the Guy Code, I write about how men and women who don’t find a balance between work, home and play will eventually find themselves up a creek when trouble hits.

Says Tom Smith director of the General Social Survey at the University of Chicago, “Their employment patterns are more like men, and you would suppose other behaviors would follow.”

Women are working more than ever and in essence becoming more like their husbands. Which is to say increasingly distracted and sidelined by their work, their phones and away from what’s most important to them and their families. Email, texting and social media all seem to take us all away from meaningful, face to face conversation.

With the current financial crisis at hand one can only wonder where these trends will take us. Will there be more infidelity? As husbands lose their jobs will they become more insular or take stock and re-connect with their wives? Will wives find themselves working more and  more distracted from their marriages? Will the recession lead to more broken relationships? Only time will tell.

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