A few weeks ago I went on a business trip. At the hotel, at the same time was a massive gathering of teenage girls.
When I say massive, I am referring to over 1,000 of them. When you put over 1,000 teenage girls in a hotel, it impacts the estrogen levels of the surroundings. There was not only noise, there was a massive overflowing of teenage hormones and estrogen.
Every morning, they had a gathering that included singing and clapping. When you have that many girls singing and clapping, the sound resonated through the bottom floors of the hotel.
The gathering included a huge dance, which meant formals and some indecent dresses as well. Up and down the halls were girls dressing up like women with many wearing provocative dresses. Apparently they associate sexiness with maturity.
There was a noticeable shift of increased energy associated with the event.
I thought to myself about the risks associated with than many teenage girls in a hotel. There’s something about being out of town that gives people permission to take greater risks and do things they wouldn’t normally do.
I suspect the willingness to engage in risky behavior when out of town was behind them wearing some of the outfits they wore. No one was watching, so “Why not?”
The whole experience had me thinking and examining the risk of affairs on business trips. When you are away from your spouse in a strange city, surrounded by temptations and exhausted or bored from the long day of business the risks for an affair are there.
When you at the flow of alcohol and stress of meetings, the risk is even higher. In a strange city, there is the whispering in your ear of “Who’s going to know?”
According to one survey, 36% of respondents said that they had affairs on business trips. Think about that for a moment. This amounts to 1 in 3 business trips included an affair.
The numbers indicate that the risk of affairs on business trips is higher than when they are at home. When your spouse makes multiple business trips each year, the odds continue mounting against your marriage.
When your marriage has business trips, there are things you can do that reduce the risks. You can’t eliminate the dangers, but you can reduce them.
At Restored Lifestyle, I share six tips on ways of reducing the risk of affairs or affair relapse on business trips.
Keeping It Real,
Jeff
