Has the Internet turned your relationship inside-out? Does it seem that your partner’s entire personality has changed since discovering the Internet? Does your Internet-obsessed partner suddenly demand privacy when using the Internet, ignore once routinely performed household chores, come late to bed every night and never has time for sex? Is your partner less interested in your relationship? Then Internet addiction has hit your relationship and a possible cyber-affair may be brewing.

When a husband or wife turns to the computer for intimacy and sex - sometimes even ending a long marriage to run off with their Internet lover - the cyberwidow left behind must confront rejection, abandonment, anger, and confusion about what happened and why. For immediate help, you can instantly download Dr. Young's exclusive booklet: Infidelity Online: An Effective Guide for Rebuilding your Relationship after a Cyberaffair or contact our Clinic for confidential counseling.

Caught in the Net: How to Recognize the Signs of Internet Addiction—and a Winning Strategy for Recovery shows couples how easy connections made through the safety of the computer screen undermine intimate relationships at home. Couples the signs of a cyberaffair and a step-by-step plan to improve communication with a partner who has strayed online. Internet addiction increases the likelihood of virtual adultery, as the table below shows. An addicted loved one is more likely to flirt online, engage in explicit sex talk, masturbate at the computer, or have offline sex with someone met via the Internet. Caught in the Net shows couples how to confront these issues in a loving, caring manner.

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Reviewed: 03/2006