Tag: soul mate

One doesn’t typically hear about love stories launched through auctions on eBay. After all, it’s not a dating site, bidders don’t exchange messages with one another, and no one ever emails the winner of something they hoped they’d score to applaud the victor on being the happy new owner. No one, that is, except for the warm-hearted person who ended up being my soul mate.

It began innocently enough. I’d slipped into the computer lab at college on that late October day in 1999, snaked the rare European compilation CD I desired at the last second, then immediately felt a bit guilty for doing so.

It’s part of our natural endowment to be attracted to the beauty around us. But even thinking seriously about having an affair can bring stormy weather into a smooth sailing, loving marriage—especially when a couple has been together for some time. Having an affair more often than not shipwrecks the love boat. If affairs do so much harm, why are they so popular? Here are six instances that can trigger an affair and how you can relinquish the urge to carry one out.