What is your definition of marriage? For me, it is a commitment to live together as a unit. To love your partner, to remain faithful to your partner. Faithful, to me, means not seeking out others for sexual or emotional fulfillment. Emotional fulfilment includes talking to your partner, feeling that you should communicate and work together to resolve the inevitable issues that arise in a lifetime together.

When someone goes outside the marriage for a "cheap" thrill or because they are withdrawing from their partner, for whatever justification, they are breaking their vows. They are destroying the very reason and the foundation of a marriage.

So, to answer your question, no. I don't regret it. When my spouse showed that he did not value the fundamental things- the most important things in making a loving relationship work, I realized I had no choice. How can anyone remain in a broken marriage?

Over 80% of marriages end when there has been infidelity and there is a reason for that. The very basis of any relationship, even friendship, is trust. The partner can no longer be trusted... So what does that make them? A stranger. Even worse than a stranger. A stranger you know you cannot trust.