Is this site ruining your love life???

[barrk]

Net blamed for marital breakups
April 15, 2002 Posted: 12:47 PM EDT (1647 GMT)

LONDON, England -- The Internet is becoming a frequent cause of the collapse of relationships, a leading marriage guidance organisation has warned.

One in 10 of the 90,000 couples who seek the help of UK-based Relate now cite the Internet as a problem, with obsessive use of the medium blamed as well as its ability as a communication tool.

Both men and women complain of becoming Internet "widows" as their partners spend hours at the computer downloading software or looking at pornography.

Sex chatlines and sites such as friendsreunited.co.uk, which can rekindle old school passions, pose further threats to relationships.

Relate's chief executive Angela Sibson told The Times newspaper on Monday: "Our counsellors report that, more and more, the Internet is a relationship breaker."

People aged between 25 and 35 were most vulnerable because they were the most frequent users of the Internet, Sibson's deputy Stephen Bagnall added.

"This is a peak time for people's first serious relationship to break up and it is also the age when many people get married for the first time," he told the paper.

[John McKernan]

Well, if people between 25 and 35 would rather look at internet pronography than discover a little with their wife/husband, then I think the problem is much deeper rooted

[barrk]

true enough!!!!!!!!!

[CiberTHuG]

Originally posted by John McKernan
Well, if people between 25 and 35 would rather look at internet pronography than discover a little with their wife/husband, then I think the problem is much deeper rooted

Well, it is obvious I didn't marry my wife because of her looks, so yes, I probably would preffer looking at some one else nude than at her.

But my marriage is fine. The only computer related strain on it would be the fact that I finally got my server running this weekend!!! Whoohooo... now to learn PHP real quick and configure the mail server and set up the DNS....

In this way my life is not unlike a gear head working on his machine.

[Wally Pipp]

"deeper rooted" ... that's your problem right there

[John McKernan]

or not deep enough can be a bigger problem

[rinoaheartilly]

Originally posted by barrk
Is this site ruining your love life???

I have a love life? Is there something I haven't been telling me? Actually, I don't see my boyfriend enough to break up with him too much work

[kalicki]

Love life?

[rjlohan]

No, but it's ruining my girlfriend's...