People's attitudes towards extramarital affairs can be seen from the following terms

Change: Adultery - third party - extramarital affair. The term "adultery" not only carries a distinct derogatory connotation but was also regarded as a criminal act during a certain period. The term "extramarital affair" is clearly a neutral one, and it may even be talked about with relish by some people due to some special overtones. The consequences of an extramarital affair are basically two: one is to break the current combination and move on to a new one; The second is to retreat after going wild, quarrelling and making a fuss. Most of the extramarital affairs of urban white-collar workers choose the latter. They only want the thrill of extramarital love but are too lazy to get divorced.

Modern relationship experts generally believe that sex is indispensable for the maintenance and completeness of a marriage. Love is like cement, sex is like steel bars, and together they are called concrete. Marriage is first and foremost a necessary procedure in a civilized society. The marriage certificate is an official passport to enter the kingdom of sex, and its existence indicates that the couple can freely engage in sexual activities. But it is precisely because of freedom that the spiritual satisfaction and physical pleasure in marital sex gradually decrease, as those beautiful illusions before marriage slowly disappear. As Freud said, "Sexual activity after legal marriage does not provide sufficient compensation for the restrictions on premarital sex life." Generally speaking, it only allows a few actions between couples that can lead to fertility to seek satisfaction. For this reason, a happy sexual life after marriage can only last for a few years. Due to the openness of social concepts, modern people's self-awareness is becoming increasingly strong. Whether men or women, many have begun to have higher requirements for the quality of their sexual life.

One of the main reasons why modern urban white-collar workers tend to have extramarital affairs is that sex in marriage becomes monotonous and dull. Modern emotional and sexual ethics also provide certain ethical grounds for extramarital affairs. In the film "The Third Party", the wife is confronted with an awkward logical reasoning: when it comes to marriage, the lover is undoubtedly the third party. When it comes to love, the wife has become an undoubted third party. This ethical concept that prioritizes feelings and emotions allows some people to use the guise of pursuing love to chase after love and sex outside of marriage. When all the beauty cannot withstand the test of reality and all the expectations burst like soap bubbles in the wind, life is left with only the plain and simple reality. The new things that life yearns for, including extramarital affairs of modern urbanites, are as beautiful and colorful as many seemingly beautiful things like marriage, yet fragile and short-lived. After being as gorgeous as soap and as brilliant as fireworks, it returns to plainness and mediocrity. Modern urban white-collar workers are a group of restless and realistic people. For most of them, extramarital affairs are just a minor episode in their marital life. After going through all kinds of aimless variations, these unfaithful husbands or wives eventually mostly returned to their families and their "married" spouses.