What could make a good mother and wife go crazy over night and start having affairs with different men?

Wisen Smart: What could make a good mother and wife go crazy over night and start having affairs with different men?
What could possibly trigger a good mother and wife married 10 years to a wonderful man, to go crazy and start having affairs with different men, divorce and continue having toxic relationships. Is this a sign of mental illness. After all those years of insanity, she still cannot understand why she did it and has settled down to be a model wife and mother again, sorry to have divorced the father of her child, but happy in her new marriage.

Answers and Views:

Answer by Andrew
Alcohol does pretty powerful things…especially in the presence of crowds of people.

Answer by Glow in the Dark
She was lonely and desperate for attention? Too bad she went the path of destructive behavior instead of getting the help she needed.

Answer by Anonymous
Triggers…something triggered her. I would suggest some solid Biblical based counseling to discover what those triggers may be.

Check out Derek Prince, a christian author who writes about generational curses and how they affect the quality of our lives.

Answer by Mike
How about she is a selfish slut who thought nothing about the vows she made. She said to herself, my life is my own and I’m going to do what ever I want. After all this is my life to live and I am going to live it in sin. Please don’t blame her actions on insanity, just stupidity.

Answer by Kate
It possibly could have been mental illness but I doubt it. Nothing happens suddenly. Something may have happened in the marriage and she sought escape from her life through affairs. Or maybe she settled down too young and finally immaturity got the best of her. No one can say except for her.

Answer by S.Lexi Kardashian304
Oh I KNOW the answer to this….

something happens to women in this certian age bracket, 30’s—they go crazy but only for a short period of time..I think it’s cause they spent their 20’s being a good wife, mother etc….then all of a suddent hey get to feeling like life has passed them by, like if they dont do anything risky right now they may never get another chance….I have seen MANY women do stupid things when they reached this age. They it’s like they get it out of their system and go back to be the good decent person they always was.

Answer by Dr. House
Mid life crisis (which can happen around 30 not just 40) aka “Saturn Return”.

If she was sexually controlled as a teenager and pushed into marriage without those ‘experimental years’ and her husband was a bit of prude… that would be why.
People told her “this was the way to be happy and true”.
She believed them.
But they are liars.

You also said wonderful man not wonderful husband.
Left something to be desired?

Answer by Festive WΘMBAT
Secret drug addiction or alcoholism, undiagnosed stroke, maybe. Might also be a case of relatively slow-cycling bipolar disorder, she started having affairs and got divorced during one of the “manic” periods. In any case I doubt that the underlying emotional or mental health issues that informed her behavior have just “disappeared.”

“she still cannot understand why she did it….”

Denial, maybe? In the case of Bipolar, people in their manic periods “feel great” and are often unaware of how distorted or impaired their judgment has become.

Answer by sevenkids
Who knows what’s going on in her head. Maybe she’s quietly not happy with the first good man,but could not express her dissatisfaction because everybody said he was a wonderful husband?And everyone thought she was such a good wife,so she could not act the opposite way? Maybe she was suffering in silence with whatever that bothered her. And then an ‘exciting’ new man came along that she thought could make her happy. And another,and another…But alas all of them turned out to be crap. Then only she learned her lesson
and decided that the first husband was the best man after all.
Some women can be choosy and fickle, so are men.