Frank conversation about cheating with my girlfriend

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Here is the conversation I had this morning with my girlfriend. She knows I have Asperger and she is an elementary school teacher, so she is very understanding. Plus she is severely overweight and overweight women tend to be understanding too since they don't have other options. So I pretty much knew that I could have a little bit of fun without losing her since it wasn't the first time I pulled pranks, although this particular prank was rather unexpected on her end. Anyway, here is the that part of the chatlog, verbatim

ME: I just read that with all those dating apps around, 60% of married couples cheat and among people that just date the percentage is much higher (they didn't say what). So I guess you are probably cheating on me.

HER: So what's really going on? The real reason you sent an accusing message.

ME: I did it because it's funny. The funny part is that it's not a real accusation since 1. It doesn't mention anything you do 2. If anything it makes you look better since a) if you don't cheat it tells you you are better than most people b) If you do cheat it tells you you are not so bad

HER: That was not a nice first text to receive from you this morning

ME: I didn't mean to hurt you. I was just trying to be funny

HER: I assumed you sent it because you were frustrated about something else

ME: No. I just read an ad for peolewhiz and it mentioned those stats which surprised me. I guess I wanted to ask you what is your take on it in general (which has nothing to do with the two of us) but I decided to do it in a funny way instead

HER: Honestly, I'm surprised it is that high. I've really never understood how a person can cheat on their significant other. Especially when they're married and made a commitment to each other

ME: I mean from logical point of view it is easy to see why they would cheat. If someone waits for ideal partner then, no matter how attractive they are, they would probably wait their whole life (an ideal partner would be a star of some sort). Therefore, if an average person doesn't want to face a prospect of being single forever, they have to settle "to some degree" (sure, less attractive people settle to higher degree than more attractive people, but everyone settles "somewhat"). Now, after the person has settled, it would be good to trade less-than-perfect option they settled on with a better option. So they cheat. Of course if they could predict ahead of time the best possible option they, personally, can get, then they would find that option and not cheat. But since nobody knows ahead of time their level of luck, that's why they use the strategy where they keep cheating in order to move higher and higher on ranks so to speak

HER: I don't understand your logic. Picking a partner is not like picking a vehicle you trade in when a better model comes along. Are you saying you would cheat on your spouse if you found someone that was more attractive? Isn't it more about being compatible with that person?

ME: Well, being compatible doesn't single out one person. Each person is generally compatible with a group of people. So then one can still talk about moving up the ranks within a group of people they are compatible with.

HER: Just wow...

ME: I think the main four things that would stop one from cheating are the following: a) Not wanting to hurt the other person. In order for the above logic to be relevant, the goal of cheating would have to be eventual trading of partners as opposed to a simple fling. It would be logically impossible to accomplish that goal without the current partner knowing. So they will get hurt b) The amount of time they put into a relationship. Here is a good example. I don't really need math PhD since I already have physics PhD (even if I wanted to be a professor in math department I could use physics PhD for that too) But since I put so much time doing a coursework when I could have been doing my own research, I want to get that math PhD so that that time doesn't go for nothing c) In God's eyes cheating is a sin d) Emotional bond that formed as a result of relationship that goes beyond a and b. So I do see reasons why people wouldn't cheat. I am just saying I also see why they would. The "absence" of a, b, c and d being a factor would make it logically likely for someone to cheat.

HER: I would hope that D would outweigh a and b.

ME: Yes it does. I really like you a lot. Although it's not really outweigh since a and b points in the same direction d does. Its more like "d is a bigger reason than a and b"

HER: Haha... had to point it out, don't you *wink*

ME: Just to avoid the possibility of you misreading what I wrote

HER: Gotcha. Want to hear how the talkative student did on yesterday's screener?

OUTCOME: From this point onward our conversation was very positive We were talking about other topics and never came back to the cheating topic.

If I had a woman talk the way QFT talks to that woman, I'd drop her like a hot hand grenade.

I don't cheat because I am loyal to a fault & I take my romantic relationships very seriously. I also don't have many options but that mostly played a factor for me getting in the romantic relationships I've been in. I had to try alternative approaches to finding partners but I took things very seriously 1ce we became a couple. The god thing is irrelevant since I'm a Secular Humanist & agnostic. Very thankfully my girlfriend is the same way I am except she believes in god but I do not think the god factor plays much part in why she won't cheat.

cheating is IMHO undignified behavior.

If you don't find her attractive, don't date her.

If you feel the need to speak about her as that unattractive, don't date her.

If you feel the need to upset her with this kind of thing, don't date her.

Being single is an option and is a better option than being with someone who treats you like crap and speaks about you to strangers in such a mean way.

It honestly sounds like you're training her gratitude into her like a dog.

Dude!

Are you and your girlfriend happy together? Or are you a couple out of mutual convenience?

EDIT: Which party would be more devastated if the relationship ended?