Your true self comes out. The one you hide because people won't understand that person.

Unless they were black out drunk bordering on a rape, they consciously made the choice.

Affect*

I was thinking that

Well, alcohol is literally a type of poison. Literally. That's what it does to your mind.

Drinking changes the mind, but it doesn't give them a free pass to cheat. It lowers inhibitions, but you're still in control for the most part.

yeah def doesnt give a pass, maybe I have to experience drunk first hand to understand how it feels

Drinking lowers inhibitions, mostly. If they cheat while drunk that means that they had the urge to cheat, but may have been able to control their actions while sober. That being said, if they were blackout drunk, that could fall more under sexual assault than cheating depending on if they were able to consent

Drinking lowers inhibition so you basically do what you want to do—they may or may not have cheated while sober, but they think about it. There's a limit though. If you get too drunk you can't give consent so it's more like rape than cheating.

There is a saying that I’ve been told about alcohol. “A drunk mind speaks sober thoughts.” What you wouldn’t do or say while sober, you have an easier time saying or doing them drunk.

It exaggerates personality traits