More couples are coping with adultery than ever before, thanks to increasingly hectic lifestyles that make infidelity easier than ever.

Just when the evidence suggests that more couples are coping with adultery and trying and save the marriage, they find themselves facing the situation more and more. Today s hectic careers and lifestyles naturally create times when the couple spends more time apart than together.

Cyber affairs are the newest and greatest culprit in this dilemma. For some, the communicative abilities of the computer and the Internet are addictive, and as problematic as chemical or alcohol addictions. These people get very caught up in the whole cyber realm. It is an escape from the problems of the real world. It is a place to hide. And in this place, it is easy to find someone of a kindred spirit, someone who is sympathetic to the problems in the marriage.

The dangerous part of these online affairs is the ability for the participants to disguise themselves. More so than in workplace affairs, you can totally reinvent yourself and project anything you want onto the other person.

Aside from the normal issues of secrecy and emotional betrayal, cyber affairs introduce an element of fantasy that has to be handled if the couple has any hope of surviving the infidelity. Counselors are increasingly getting training in the subtleties of cyber romances in order to help their couples cope with the infidelity.