David is 21 years old and Elena is 23. They met through Instagram and are now a couple. Or they were. Or maybe they still are, I’m not sure, because they participate in the island of temptations and they have already starred in the “Estefanía moment” of this edition with fainting in the middle of the bonfire.
David has been unfaithful (very unfaithful) to Elena and although there are already many articles in which we talk about infidelity and we have told you in which country are they less unfaithful and even the implication that genes have infidelity (excuse that someone from the island would use if they knew it), we still don’t know how is it possible that someone cries for his girlfriend at 8 in the afternoon and at 8:30 he is already eating his mouth (and what is not his mouth) with another woman.
Why we are unfaithful after having been crying for our partner
David’s tears for Elena that do not prevent him from sleeping with María. Again. Some might think that they are crocodile tears, of regret or even shame, but the truth is that psychology seems to have the secret of this behavior where during the day we feel guilty but at night we cuckoldand it has to do with the previous dynamics of the couple.
Before infidelity as such occurs in the island of temptations we can hear the same phrases from all the participating couples: he is the love of my life, we are going to come out stronger, I come here to find out if I can trust him/her. Obviously it almost never goes well. In fact, we could count the couples who enter and leave the program together on the fingers of one hand.
In the case of David and Elena, she mistrusts him before entering. She forbids him to go out, controls him and keeps him in a kind of prison that is actually “psychological abuse with control and social isolation”, as Iria Reguera, psychologist and editor-in-chief of Trendencias, explains to us. A toxic and unhealthy relationship even before there is infidelity none. Obviously infidelity is not excusable for this reason, but this type of relationship is the perfect breeding ground to encourage it to occur.
Ok, we are in a toxic relationship and someone appears with whom we connect, either physically or emotionally. Feeling attracted to other people is not a problem, it is the most normal thing in the world and something inherent to the human being, but when the myth of romantic love and relationships are idealized, phrases are pronounced that are the springboard (or excuse) for future infidelitylike “if I really were in love, I wouldn’t be attracted to another person.”
The relationship with the third person starts to get more intense, and now it’s the “we’re not really okay” moment. David begins to say it during the program when he still hasn’t had anything happen with María (if we understand by having something to eat their mouths or sleep together, although there have already been micro-infidelities with the temptress).
Now yes: David falls into temptation and we already have a deal on The Island of Temptations. Elena faints and David begins to see their “new relationship” as the perfect relationshipbut she soon realizes that having been unfaithful has consequences such as causing a break with her partner, so she goes from ecstasy to crying in a loop that begins to seem infinite to us.
Hence the intense roller coaster that David, Álex or Marina live in the island of temptationsand that drives us crazy every Monday.
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