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“Sexual infidelity means you need to have sexual contact with a person who is not your partner, and emotional infidelity means that you’re confiding in and emotionally connecting with a person outside of your relationship without the sex,” she says. “We’re dealing with a whole new category here!” Dr. Berman has named sexting, social media, and e-mail flirting phenomenon “cyber infidelity.” Stacy Kaiser, a licensed psychotherapist, relationship columnist for USA Today, and author of How to Be a Grown-Up, refers to it as a “virtual affair.”
According to a recent survey conducted by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, 81 percent of divorce lawyers say they’ve seen an increase in social networking evidence in their cases over the last five years, reports ABA Journal, a publication of the American Bar Association. Facebook was named the “unrivaled leader for online divorce evidence” with two-third of attorneys citing it as a primary source of evidence, followed by MySpace at 15 percent and Twitter at 5 percent.
(Source: everydayhealth.com)
