Net relationships 'as damaging as real-life affairs'
London: An internet relationship can be as damaging to partnerships as cheating in real life, new research has shown.
People tend to view online intimacy as infidelity, even though sex may not be involved, a new study has found.
Psychologist Monica Whitty, from Queen's University, Belfast, asked 245 students to complete stories in which one partner from a couple develops a relationship over the net.
More than half the stories represented the "betrayer" as being unfaithful, while 84 per cent portrayed the "victim" partner feeling betrayed.
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