What the weird habits of Ancient Greeks can teach you about Affairs.

Greek myths are studies into human nature. When you read them, they show not only how the ancient Greeks viewed issues like adultery, but also the long term effects associated with adultery.

It’s no wonder that after many adulterous relationships that Zeus views himself as a deity. When a cheater has multiple affairs and never faces or deals with the consequences, it’s not a surprise that they start viewing themselves as ‘above the law’ when it comes to natural consequences or even feel ‘special’.

They may seriously believe that the usual rules do not apply to them. Zeus often viewed himself as ‘above’ any universal laws.

Reading the accounts of Zeus’s profligacy reminds me that adultery is not new. It is an old habit of the human race.

With it being such a long standing behavior, you would have thought that people would have learned how to eradicate or cure this behavior.

The problem you run into is that the Zeus types don’t view their behavior as ‘wrong’ or ‘evil’. On the contrary, they view it as ‘natural’ and ‘good’, even going to the point of claiming that cheating even makes their marriage stronger and better.

When cheaters are caught up in such delusional thinking, they are hard to deal with. This may explain how in so many of the other Greek myths that having disagreements with Zeus was a common occurrence. Does this show us cheaters become hard to get along with (unless you are the lover)? Could it be that cheaters excuse what they’ve done?

Zeus often gave little or no regard to ‘surprise’ offspring. There were a few that he gave affection, yet a greater number were often ignored by their father or their evil deeds were ignored.

So when you do have children crying out for attention from their father, their antics are often overlooked or downplayed. When his son Hephaestus tried intervening in an argument between his parents, Zeus physically abused him.

Zeus’s son Ares always stirred up trouble and his constant companion was Eris, the spirit of strife. Artemis and Apollo were the favored children who could do no wrong in his eyes.

Zeus’s son, Dionysus was the god of wine and habitual alcoholic. His son Tantalus was doomed to suffer forever in the underworld.

And the list goes on. It surprises me how many insights can be gained into the mind of a cheater and their wide range of behaviors, including blatant favoritism and double standards in response to his children.

Looking at the Greek myths through the lens of human relationships often reveals some truths that you had never considered before.

You never know where you will find nuggets of wisdom and understanding in finding out answers about affairs. On closer examination, the example set by Zeus shows him as a quintessential cheater.

If your marriage has been marred by an affair, you can do something about it. Rather than turning a blind eye to things as others did to Zeus, you can take action.

One thing is to download the ‘Affair Recovery Workshop‘. This download guides you in undoing the damage done by the cheater. You can now be guided as to what you need to bring up, when to bring it up and ways of approaching the cheater that get results.

Best Regards,

Jeff