Since the 90s, things have changed in the sense that a lot of the married women now have extra-marital affairs assisted by the Internet.  This has been going on very quietly throughout the world in the same manner that it goes on for men.  There are websites, clubs and hotels that would oblige and actually make it easy for these bold women to engage in extra-marital relations.  And of course, if you do happen to see your neighbor in one of those situations, you keep it to yourself since you might try it soon or are already trying it.  (Related:  How to confront a cheater)

The biggest temptation is a partner who neglects his family life or is just not able to fulfill the emotional needs of his wife. After several years of marriage, as his wife takes care of the kids and has less time for the husband, the communication between the couple is extremely limited.  Reports indicate that once kids are born, many couples do not share the bedroom any more.  Dr. Andrew Atwood, the reclaimed author of the book Hopeful Solutions for Sexless Marriage, estimates that as many as 17 million married people in the United States have hardly any physical intimacy.  (Related: Retaliation affair)

Absentee Husbands

Mary, a 30-year old woman says, "My husband is always traveling. And even when he's home, he seems to prefer his beer and TV over me. He likes to be with these younger women in the office.  He thinks that I am too old now that I am in my 30s.  He is too busy improving his golf game."

Similar comments are heard from women by us all the time.   When the kids are young, it is OK for the women to live like this since they are just too busy with their motherhood.  Once kids grow up and start going to school (and these women are still young by any standards), they have plenty of time and money on their hands.  No wonder they start thinking about having a romance.  The practice is so common among certain parts that having a boyfriend or a lover is a status symbol and women seem to discuss among themselves their latest adventures.  No wonder "Desperate Housewives" has been such a big success.  (Related article:  Clues of a man cheating online)

The Internet has been a big boon to women with the emergence of several websites that actually allow one to find casual relationship with married people very easily.  Now that they seem to have a powerful system that can connect them to a wide pool of  men, the preparation can be done from the privacy of one's home.  In fact the situation has gotten so bad that in one of our online surveys, one in three women contemplated having an extra-martial affair.   (Related article:  Infidelity hurts)