As if you didn’t know already, Facebook is the end all be all to a good relationship. This doesn’t necessarily apply to just marriages, but all relationships. Just getting to know someone, first thing you do is 1) friend them 2) stalk their pictures and 3) wonder who in those pictures are the dreaded exes or just people they’ve slept with.
If you are already in set relationship, what’s stopping you from questioning EVERYTHING that goes on there? The new friends that are added, the inconspicuous comments, and the dreaded Inbox. There are a multitude of other scenarios that leave otherwise non-confrontational partners to overreact. I can at least say that I am not one of these because, as a rule, I am not friends with my exes. A girl has to have a little bit of mystery, plus I read like an open book and if you want to know, just ask.
However, a recent study shows that 1 in 5 marriages (20 percent!) use Facebook as an excuse for their marital demise. It claims that the social networking site triggers spouses to “having inappropriate sexual chats with people they were not supposed to.” Compelling! All I’m saying is that I am not surprised, and while I don’t normally date people I don’t trust anyway, I could see how some girls (and guys) see how their significant others who would not normally stray, get caught up with Facebook sluts.
I feel that cheating is cheating and if a partner is going to, they will do it no matter how it gets done. Whether or not Facebook is the cause, there must be other factors in place to cause the demise of a marriage and cheating is just a way out. While some people may be intrinsically wired to do so, trust is trust. If you feel the need to erupt over every new friend request from the opposite sex, maybe it’s not just Facebook as a cause that you need to look at.
