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Two decades ago, they were high school sweethearts. On a whim, he Googled her on his office computer, and found she lived in a nearby state. "It's innocent enough," he told himself as he fired off an e-mail to her, "just two old friends reconnecting." Months later, after an exchange of e-mails, then cell phone calls, in which they eventually talked about their Read more...

A man phones home from his office and tells his wife: "Something has just come up. I have a chance to go fishing for a week. It's the opportunity of a lifetime. We leave right away. So pack my clothes, my fishing equipment, and especially my blue silk pajamas. I'll be home in an hour to pick them up." He goes home in a hurry and grabs everything and rushes off. A week later he returns. Read more...

We're used to thinking men are more likely than women to stray in a relationship -- but it seems the roles are being reversed. A new survey suggests that it's women who are more unfaithful, with four in 10 admitting that they have cheated on their partner. By comparison, three in 10 men said they had done the dirty on their nearest and dearest. It also emerged that four in 10 cheats Read more...

Lance Maggiacomo was out of work, bored and lonely when he started hiding his online relationships from his wife. There was no affair, only chatting through e-mail, yet it felt like cheating just the same. A few years later, a reformed Maggiacomo has an in-house check on his impulses. He and his wife Lori, like other Christian couples around the country, share one e-mail account as a Read more...

A woman is in bed with her lover who also happens to be her husband's best friend. They make love for hours, and afterwards, while they're just laying there, the phone rings. Since it is the woman's house, she picks up the receiver. Her lover looks over at her and listens, only hearing her side of the conversation . . . (She is speaking in a cheery voice) "Hello? Oh, hi. I'm Read more...

Pat and Mike were walking down the street, when they came to the church, Pat says, 'Mike, you wait here, I'm going to run in for confession, it's been a long time'. Pat enters the confessional and says,' Father forgive me, I have sinned with a married woman'. The priest asks, 'was it Mrs Murphy'? 'No, Father', was the reply. 'Was it Mrs O'Boyle'? Again the reply was 'No, Read more...

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- The e-mails between Gov. Mark Sanford and a woman in Argentina spell out their relationship in excruciating detail. Addressed to "My Love," "Sweetest" and "My Beloved," the words express a sensual and emotional bond rather than a brief fling. And that can make the pain sharper, deeper and longer-lasting, family therapists said. Read more...

Aging lothario Ken Barlow has had yet another affair. It seems that Ken and Deirdre just can't remain faithful to each other. If it's not Ken who's playing away, then it's Deirdre's turn to do the dirty. You would think that, after all these years, this pair would have either decided to go their separate ways or have worked out a way of dealing with the gaps in their relationship. Sadly, Read more...

What makes a woman cheat on her husband or a man betray his wife? The UK's affair economy is worth almost 700 million pounds with the internet fuelling a huge rise in infidelity and increasing numbers of women being unfaithful.While concealing or lying about your marital status on internet dating forums is common, a new wave of websites have been created to cater for this market.One of the latest Read more...

I have an uncle. Or, perhaps I should say I had an uncle, and that is just the point. He cheated on my aunt -- his wife of many years -- and she has thrown him out. They are getting a divorce. Apparently, this wasn't his first indiscretion -- my aunt forgave him a former dalliance some years ago. Her self-respect just won't let her do it a second time, and I certainly understand that. The thing Read more...

Women with high levels of the hormone estradiol tend to be considered more attractive and more likely to cheat on their partners, U.S. researchers said. University of Texas researchers measured levels of the hormone in 53 women age 17-30. The women were asked to rate how attractive men find them, compared to other women, before their photograph was rated by a panel of men and women. The Read more...

Unfaithful women beware. Chances are your male partner is on your case. In fact, he is likely to suspect infidelities even when you have kept to the straight and narrow. The flip side is that to counter this constant vigilance, women may be better than men at concealing illicit liaisons. Paul Andrews at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond and colleagues gave 203 young heterosexual Read more...

A couple were throwing a dinner party for all the major bigwigs in town. The wife was very excited about the party and wanted everything to be just perfect. At the very last minute, she realized that she didn't have any escargot, so she asked her husband to run down to the beach with a bucket and gather some snails.Grudgingly, he agreed. He took the bucket, walked out the door, down the steps, Read more...

If you cheated on your spouse, would you admit it to a researcher? That question is one of the biggest challenges in the scientific study of marriage, and it helps explain why different studies produce different estimates of infidelity rates in the United States. Surveys conducted in person are likely to underestimate the real rate of adultery, because people are reluctant to admit such Read more...

There are lots of reasons why people have affairs. Some people have a string of affairs because they crave the intense feelings that you get at the beginning of a relationship or the feeling of excitement that can come with being unfaithful.Others may have difficulty being faithful as a result of emotional issues that stem from childhood or from problems in past relationships.Sometimes, affairs Read more...

QUESTION: My husband died a month ago from cancer. We had been married for nearly 40 years, and I thought we had the perfect marriage. He told me he wouldn't have been able to go on as long as he did without my support. But when I was going through his things, I discovered love letters from another woman. It seems they had an affair 20 years ago that lasted six years. I am shattered. How could he Read more...

QUESTION: I'm beginning to suspect that my husband is having an affair. How should I approach the situation? ANSWER: Very carefully. Since you write that you are "beginning to suspect infidelity," we can assume that you don't have any proof. We suggest that you proceed cautiously. Obviously, you want to make sure that your suspicions are justified before you confront your husband ... a Read more...

QUESTION: The love that I have for my husband has been dying every single day since I met another man online. We've known each other for almost a year now, and I love everything about him: his beliefs, the way he cares for his son, the way he makes me feel every time we speak. The thing is, we've never even met face-to-face! He told me that he's afraid to come to see me, and then not be able to Read more...

QUESTION: My girlfriend and I began our relationship under rather inauspicious circumstances; she was essentially in another relationship for the first month of ours. At the time, I shoved my guilt aside and considered it a fling. But she ended the other relationship and committed to me, and the situation metamorphosed into a real relationship. We have been together over a year now and, Read more...

The new family in Albert Square (Walford, England) look picture-perfect on the outside, but it has become obvious that Max and Tanya's relationship is still suffering from the after-effects of him having an affair.They moved to the Square in the hope they could start again, but the past has come back to haunt them in the shape of Gemma, Max's mistress.Even before Gemma arrived back on the scene, Read more...