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The numbers on infidelity are close enough to even.

57% of men who admit to committing infidelity in any relationship they’ve had.
54% of women who admit to committing infidelity in any relationship they’ve had

22% of married men ADMIT to having an extra marital affair.
14% of women ADMIT to having an extra marital affair.

Men get the rap of being a louse (which they are)

Women rationalize it as "he drove me to it".

Women file for divorce almost 70% of the time.
OF THESE...89% are women who have a Bachelors degree or higher.

When it comes to non marriage relationships, the numbers are virtually even, of who breaks it off.

As far as physical or emotional abuse...

1 in 3 women and 1 in 4 men have been the victims of physical abuse by a partner.

The numbers on infidelity are close enough to even.
57% of men who admit to committing infidelity in any relationship they’ve had.
54% of women who admit to committing infidelity in any relationship they’ve had

Those statements are misleading and badly worded.
• Are they identifying themselves as the cheater and therefore that is why they are getting divorced against their will, or because they like the new person better?
• Are they identifying cheating as the main reason for the divorce, without indicating whether it was their own cheating or their partner's cheating that they blame?
• Was the cheating something one did first or for a prolonged time, abandoning sex with the spouse, and then the other spouse hooked up with someone else after having been abandoned by the first cheater, but the statistics simply count both of them as having cheated?

"There are lies, damned lies and statistics." This is not to say statistics cannot help -- good, well-constructed studies that reveal the mechanics of how the numbers were arrived at and that study a large and representative sample of people can be helpful. But you didn't even cite the source of your chart, much less who conducted it, how many were studied over what period of time, and a variety of other factors that would lend legitimacy.

“Of these...89% are women who have a bachelor’s degree of higher.”

College-educated women may be more likely to initiate a divorce because getting married in the first place has become almost exclusive to the college-educated these days. Shacking up with no prospects of marriage is now pretty much the norm among a lot of women and men who only have a high school education or less.