Extra marital affairs often generate challenges
From the perspective of a mediator, extra marital affairs often generate challenges that make it more difficult to help couples achieve fair and amicable settlements. I thought it would be interesting to discuss why that is and to look at some of the problems raised by affairs when negotiating marital settlements. Recommended Relationship Counsellors Of the many reasons that marriages end, few create as much excitement as an affair. Popular media loves affairs of celebrities and politicians. The dramatic elements of illicit sex, secret liaisons and betrayal provide endless fascination for those without something more interesting to draw their attention. In truth, I think affairs get more attention than they justify. In my years of mediation in which the husband or wife has had an affair and in which the affair was the precipitating event of the divorce. in all the cases I have seen few of which an affair broke up an otherwise healthy and viable marriage. In many others the affa...