The question is, since women today are financially dependent enough to leave their cheating spouses, why are they not?
Contrary to the traditional thinker's belief that women are the weaker sex, like how they've been constantly portrayed by society as an object of lust, I think women who are able to forgive their cheating husbands are in fact a lot more stronger than people generally think of them. Unlike the men who will attempt to destroy their marriage by divorcing and shaming their cheating wives, these women who forgive, by comparison, actually has much more to deal with emotionally. Imagine the different stages of distraught a woman has to go through; the discovery, the blaming, the avoidance, the coming to terms and the realisation that you still love each other and finally the forgiving. Most men I would say, stop at avoidance because they are too weak to handle the fact they've been cheated upon, much less accepting it.
By contrast, it is really a lot harder to forgive and forget than to just leave.
To women who forgave their cheating husbands: I think you are really strong.