Internet Dangers

According to Britain’s biggest marriage guidance organization, Relate, misuse of the Internet often causes marital strife, says The Times of London. “Husbands and wives complain of becoming Internet widowers or widows after being left to sit alone as a partner spends hours at the computer messaging strangers in chat rooms, downloading music and games, or looking at pornography.” Internet sites that enable people to revive old romances by E-mail, as well as experience cybersex, can also threaten marital harmony. Relate offers relationship counseling to 90,000 couples a year, 10 percent of whom blame the Internet for their difficulties. And the problem is growing. Relate’s chief executive, Angela Sibson, says: “Our counsellors report that, more and more, the Internet is a relationship breaker.”