Types of Marital Infidelity Injuries in Couples

Marital infidelity can cause many injuries to people and cause them to lose their marital relationships. The purpose of this study was to identify the types of marital infidelity injuries. The research was a qualitative one and systematic review and exploratory interviews were used to extract the types of marital infidelity injuries. In the systematic review section, 31 articles out of a total of 65 articles were searched and selected during the process. Also, for exploratory interview, 20 couples involved in marital infidelity were selected by purposeful method and interviewed. The opinions of 14 family professionals were also examined to assess the validity of the list of marital infidelity injuries. The results showed that marital infidelity was harmful in all aspects of individual (physical and psychological), family, social and spiritual. In the individual dimension, sleep disturbance, eating disorder, anxiety, depression, loss of trust, in the family dimension, emotional relationships decline, stress in the family, loss of family intimacy, disturbance of parental duties, loss of social dimension Honor, job problems, and financial problems, and in the spiritual dimension, tormented conscience and guilt as the most important traumas of marital infidelity. Based on the results, it can be said that marital infidelity is not an individual problem but a comprehensive injury and requires comprehensive interventions to prevent and treat it.