The biggest day of the year for female sign ups to AshleyMadison.com, the website for married people looking to cheat, is the day after Mother's Day. In fact, in 2012 there was a 400 percent increase in female sign ups on the Monday after Mother's Day. Noel Biderman,...

Your friend calls you in the middle of the night, crying. She sniffles and barely manages to say, "He did it again. He cheated!" You hold your breath because you aren't sure what to say. You want to say the right thing. However, what comes out may be the the...

Excerpted from The New Monogamy: Redefining Your relationship After Infidelity

Does infidelity always have to mean the end of the relationship? Affairs can be painful and shocking, and can often cause untold damage. However, for some couples, an affair may also be a path to strength and to...

Souvent, quand on découvre que notre partenaire nous a trompé, notre première question est un "pourquoi?" angoissé. Cette question qui n'a souvent pas de réponse est celle qui nous conduit à ruminer ce qui est arrivé et on se retrouvera peut-être à forcer notre partenaire à revenir sans arrêt sur...

Excerpted from The New Monogamy; Redefining Your relationship After Infidelity

Often, when we discover that a partner has been cheating, the first question is an anguished "Why?" This often-unanswerable question is what drives us to ruminate on what happened, and we may force our partners to talk about...

Excerpted from The New Monogamy; Redefining Your Relationship After Infidelity

The immediate response after discovering a spouse's affair is commonly disbelief, anger, sadness, loss or grief. It can take several years before the betrayed spouse is ready to even consider forgiveness, even if the partner who cheated begs...

Erotic recovery is a fundamental part of healing after an affair. It addresses a very basic relationship need: to be erotically and intimately connected.

Moving from being emotionally and sexually disconnected after an affair may seem impossible, especially if you are still in intense pain. But if you choose to...

Affairs can be painful and shocking and can cause betrayal and hurt. Yet some couples do recover. Mattie and Jim had been dating for several years before they got married. They swore in front of their friends and family that they wouldn't cheat on each other. Yet, seven years later,...

How do you end an affair?

We all make mistakes. If we are really honest with ourselves, sometimes staying married to the same person for ten, twenty or even thirty years can be an incredibly difficult challenge. For some people, having an affair may seem like a good idea...

Erotic recovery is a fundamental part of healing after an affair. Your erotic life together is a very basic relationship need. After infidelity, going back to being erotically and intimately connected with your partner can be complicated.

Erotic recovery encompasses all of the emotional, physical and intimacy needs in...

The wedding of Hugh Hefner and his Playboy Bunny girlfriend Crystal Harris is allegedly on again (the couple split last year after Harris called off the wedding). But is anything different this time? Why has Hugh Hefner decided to marry someone less than half his age when he...

Gen. David Petraeus stepped down from his position as CIA director last week due to an extramarital affair with his biographer -- married author and West Point graduate Paula Broadwell. Ironically, in the book authored by Broadwell, "All In: The Education of General David Petraeus," the...

Our attraction to a mate is based on many things, not the least of which is the almost innate ability to find someone who drives you crazy.

When you first meet your partner, there are things you love about them, and later on, it is those...

You are still hiding the affair. In fact, as you lay in bed with your lover you think about your husband and how much it would hurt him if he knew. You don't love this other guy, but the sex; well... the sex is great. But you love your husband...

In a recent article in The Wall Street Journal, "How Couples Stay Together After An Affair", columnist Elizabeth Bernstein advises couples that want to stay together after an affair to stay calm and to put aside anger. Other experts in the article say to apologize twice, end the...

Twitter won't tell you when someone unfollows you. The only way you'll know is if you check your followers and see that you're not on their list anymore.

When Rihanna stopped following Chris Brown, it was headline news. Apparently he dissed her (short for "disrespected her") in one of...

When you first get married, your vision of a romantic life can get lost quickly in the day-to-day management of the business of a shared life. Shortly after the wedding, you may find that you both go back to work and to the routine of getting up in the morning,...

The biggest day of the year for female sign-ups to AshleyMadison.com, the website for married people looking to cheat, is the day after Valentine's Day. Ten times more women sign up to Ashley Madison to meet other married men to have affairs on February 15th than on any...

A recent report from the National Marriage Project, "Date Night Opportunity," found that couples who spend time together at least once a week were 3.5 times happier in bed. Time invested in being alone -- together, without the kids or the chores -- meant that couples were happier...

After seven years of marriage and three children together (not including one from a previous relationship of Klum's), Heidi Klum and Seal are divorcing and going their separate ways. Although the split is "amicable," rumor has it that their seemingly perfect marriage had ripples of trouble underneath the surface. Reports...