Affairs: Is Your Relationship At Risk?

Most people at some point in a relationship will meet someone who looks like they would be a "better" partner. However, marriage includes the expectation of primariness: the commitment of both partners to keeping each other the most important person in their life. Usually couples agree that primariness will include the expectation in which partners promise to have sexual relations only with each other (Reiss, 1986; Pittman, 1980):

• Introduction
• How Affairs Develop
• Type of Affairs
• What Causes Affairs?
• When the Affair Ends
• Surviving an Affair
• Three Stages of Healing
• References

Copyright © 2001, Walmsley and Associates. Article by Blaine Powel, Family Therapist, Walmsley and Associates, 270 - 444 Victoria Street, Prince George, BC, V2L 2J3