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Course : Microeconomics 2
Paper/Assignment Title : Utility of Cheating (Having Affair) : Can Someone Love
Two People At The Same Time?
Date : December 21st,2018
Lecturer : Teguh Dartanto S.E., M.E., Ph.D.
 UTILITY OF CHEATING (HAVING AFFAIR) : CAN SOMEONE LOVE TWO
PEOPLE AT THE SAME TIME ?
By
Aditya Bagus Saputra / 1606862652

Introduction
Introduction
"Social Media Rewind 2018: Do you Remember Jennifer Dunn or Jedun and Bu Denny ?"
Cheating or having affair is the most common and discussed case in social media,
especially in Indonesia. Many (righteous) netizens and social media accounts like Instagram
are very happy with the gossip about cheating. Lambe Turah and friends, as well as their
followers, were able to reveal this case which initially was not caught on camera, then went
viral on social media. With this condition, it turned out that a new trend for the Indonesian
people, namely pelakor and perbinor. This trend encourages many cheaters at the beginning
level to try cheating since it is seemingly a safe and easy choice. In this paper, I will not
discuss the phenomenon of cheating in Indonesia and the influence of Lambe Turah. What I
would like to see is whether cheating is fun and easy to do. Also, whether it is possible if
someone loves two people at the same time.
However, before we analyze and answer the questions, we must consider as to why do
people want to cheat? The basic reason for this case is someone to become bored or have the
feel of losing her/his love to his/her partner. But they do not want to end the relationship
because, for example, the couple is first love or the relationship has lasted so long that they
want to restore their love without having to cheat on their partner.
"The Magic of First Love is ignorance that it can never end" – Benjamin Disraeli
By building assumptions like the reasons above. Then the utility model dates someone who
cheats :
2
x1
U= + b2 x22 s.t E=e1 x1 + e2 x2
√a

Based on the equation, U means utility of cheating which will be affected by X 1

(Frequency dating with the old or hurt partner) and X2 (Frequency dating with pelakor or
perbinor). Both of the variables given are squared in order to give emphasis that both of the
dating given could pursue bigger and giving double effect towards cheating. Each of those
factors is affected as well, for example, X 1 if affected by a which means a request for love
from old/hurt partner while X2 is affected by b which means a request for love form pelakor
or perbinor. In this equation or model parameter, a and b are not linear. There are some
reason for it. First, with the assumption that someone decides to cheat because bored or lose
of the love so when the old partner asks to get more love then this will not have an impact on
someone's desire to date his old partner and even decrease but the decline is not linear
because in order to maintain the relationship. So in this model to make a decreasing effect

1
that is not linear then parameter a be . Second, the reason why parameter b is squared
√a
(b2) because the couple is still falling in love so that when the pelakor or perbinor asks for
more love then the frequency of dating will initially increase but cheating never happy ending
and it will reach a certain point of bored which the increase will be smaller. Then, in real life,
everyone has a limit or constraint to able to do something and also it`s happened for dating.
Limit of time, energy and money for dating are a constraint for person to dating with her/his
couple. Therefore, this utility will be constrained by maximum effort to do dating with 2
partner which e1 means effort dating with the old/hurt partner and e 2 means effort dating with
pelakor or perbinor.

Mathematical Analysis
In order to find solution for some people who wants to maximize her/his cheating, we need to
derive the problem to find the relationship between variables :
x 21
L= + b2 x 22 + λ( E−e1 x 1−e2 x2 )
√a
∂L
=2 x 2 b2− λ e2
∂ x1 ∂ L 2 x1 ∂L
=E−e 1 x 1−e 2 x 2
= −λ e 1
2 ∂ x1 √ a ∂λ
λ e 2=2 x2 b
2
2 x1
2x b λ e 1=
λ= 2 √a
e2
2 x1
λ=
√a e 1

2 x1 2 x 2 b
2
E=e1 x1 + e2 x2
= 2
√ a e1 e2 x 2 b √ a e1
E=e1 + e2 x 2
2
e2
x2 b √ a e1 x 2 b 2 √ a e 21 +e 22 x 2
x 1=
e2 E=
e2
x 2 e2 2 2
x b √ a e 1 +e 2 x 2
2
x 2= E= 2
e1 b2 √ a e2
E e2 E e1 b2 √ a
x 2= 2 ; x1 = 2
b √a e 21 +e 22 b √ a e 21 +e 22
Based on the amount of X1 and X2 there are some analysis :
1. Impact of b on X1
b
2
(¿¿ 2 √ a e 21+ e22 )
2 2 2 2 2
∂ x 1 2 E e 1 b √a ( b √ a e1 +e 2 )−2b √ a e 1 ( E e1 b √ a )
=
∂b ¿
b
2
(¿¿ 2 √ a e21 +e 22)
2 E e 1 b √ a ( b2 √a e21 +e 22−b 2 √ a e 21)
¿ ¿
b
2 2 2
(¿¿ 2 √ a e1 +e 2 )
2 E e 1 b √a e22
¿
¿
Since we know that if pelakor or perbinor ask to get more love, so the frequency of
dating with him/her will increase. But we also have to see how its impact on the
frequency of dating with old/hurt partners. Therefore, based on that equation we can see
that if pelakor or perbinor asks for more love precisely it will increase the frequency of
dating with old partners too. This is consistent with the assumption that someone who
cheats but still wants to maintain a relationship with the old partner then he/she must
covßer up the problem while still giving more love to the old partner. It`s important
because to make old partner is not suspicious and still feels that his partner is loyal even
though he is actually hiding his affair (pelakor or perbinor).
2. Impact of a on X2
b
2 2 2
(¿¿ 2 √ a e1 +e 2)
−1
2 2 2
∂ x 2 −0,5 b a e 1 E e 2
=
∂a ¿

From the first equation, we also know that if the old partner asks for love more then the
frequency of dating an old partner will decrease. But it is not only the frequency of
dating with an old partner that has an influence on a but also affects the frequency with
pelakor or perbinor. Based on the equation, above, we can see that if old partner asks for
 more love to him/her partner so it will decrease frequency dating with his/her affair. The
reason for this condition is because it's the same as the first that maintaining relationships
with old partners is still a priority. Although in the first equation we know that a and X1
have a negative correlation but this is in accordance with real life. When someone wants
to cheat, in his/her mind he/she wants to forget the old partner but in his heart, it is not as
easy as he/she thinks. Although already bored with the old partner, but if the old partner
asks for more love and can melt the heart of his partner, he/she still has to sacrifice the
frequency of dating with her/his affair.

3. Impact of e1 on X1 and e2 on X2
−E b 2 √ a e 21−e 22
b
2
(¿¿ 2 √ a e21 +e 22 )
∂ x1
=¿ ¿
∂ e1 ¿
assuming someone chooses to cheat for reasons of being bored with an old partner and
feeling lost, then based on the above equation when it turns out that at this time the old
partner needs an increase in effort, it will further reduce the frequency of someone dating
an old partner. This will indeed happen because when someone is bored with his or her
partner and it turns out he or she needs a big effort to date, that person will reduce the
frequency of dating.
b2 √ a e
b
2 2 2
(¿ ¿ 2 √ a e1 +e 2 )
2 2
(¿¿ 1 −e2 )
E ¿
∂ x2
=¿
∂ e2
Conversely, if someone needs additional effort to date an affair then the frequency of
dating will still continue to increase. But not always the person will want to do this
because when the effort needed to date with affair is far greater than the effort to date
with old partner then the frequency of dating an affair will decrease at that time. This is
because the love given to cheating is not sincere love so there is a limit to the effort a
person gives to his affair.

Conclusion
Based on mathematical and logical discussions, cheating is not something easy to do.
Maybe having affair or cheating will give someone more satisfaction in making love like
when dating. Cheating can also give a love in a relationship that at that time began to not
be obtained from the old partner. But cheating requires a lot of effort to keep in touch
with the two people at the same time. So to make it is not known by the old partner, then
the person must keep to give more love to the old partner. This is done because in order
not to arouse suspicion from the old partner and still make the old partner feel their
relationship is still romantic. On the other hand the person must also give love to his/her
affair who at that time was still deeply in love so the affairs ask more love too. So this
condition will make someone feel happy at the beginning and begin to have difficulties
in the middle of his/her relationship because they have to be able to manage their effort
so that they can still have relationships with two people at the same time.
When someone chooses to cheat on a reason he/she feels bored and loses his/her love for
an old partner, actually this is part of the transition in a relationship. It will be very
difficult for someone to be able feels the same love at all times and naturally there will be
a stage which boredom and saturated appears with old partners. So cheating is actually
not the right choice. Relationship is like a house, if a lightbulb burns out, you don`t go
and buy new house but you only fix the lightbulb. Repairing relationships and continuing
to be faithful is a more appropriate choice. Relationship is not like a test so we don`t
need to cheat. If we truly love someone, so being faithful is an easy thing to do.