Adultery sign - A possible adultery sign to cause you concern is becoming more prevalent in American homes.

Is your spouse spending more time on the family computer than he does talking to you? If you are suspecting your spouse of adultery, then be aware that extensive computer usage is a huge sign of adultery.

At one time, television was hailed as the great destroyer of the American family. Families that used to spend quality time talking instead passively watched television. However, at least when a family watched television, it was doing so together.

On the other hand, online surfing is worse than television, and extensive surfing a sign of adultery. Computers are not inherently group activities - only one person can be online at a time. Surfing is also mesmerizing - a person can easily tune out the others around him.

This solo activity naturally lends itself to the secrecy needed to have an affair (see our Article, The Three Elements of Adultery. The cheater can have friends in different chat rooms and on different websites.

In this environment, with the household din in a distant background, and a ready supply of new faceless friends sympathetic to the cheater s every complaint, cyber affairs blossom.

Cyber affairs are relatively new on the adultery scene, and they are addictive. The cheater can get very caught up in the relationship. It s hiding out, escaping from the real world problems his marriage doesn t answer. And, even though there is the lack of physical contact, the volume is turned up on the emotional intimacy and, perhaps, sexual chemistry during these private chats. However safe and abstracted the cheater feels, however, this is still adultery.

Cyber affairs are still adultery, and a growing number of marriages are in deep trouble because of them. Just like with in-person affairs, the affair must be ended immediately in order for the couple to have any hope of surviving it.