Netscape summarized 7 tips to “preventing infidelity” as described by Shirley P. Glass and Jean Coppock Staeheli, authors of “Not ‘Just Friends’: Protect Your Relationship from Infidelity and Heal the Trauma of Betrayal” (excerpt):
1. Maintain appropriate walls and windows. Keep the windows open at home. Put up privacy walls with others who could threaten your marriage.
2. Recognize that work can be a danger zone. Don’t lunch alone or take coffee breaks with the same person all the time. . . .
3. Avoid emotional intimacy with attractive alternatives to your committed relationship. . . .
4. Protect your marriage by discussing relationship issues at home. . . .
5. Keep old flames from reigniting. . . .
6. Don’t go over the line when you’re online with Internet friends. . . .
7. Make sure your social network is supportive of your marriage. . . .
Domestic Diversions
1. Good counsel on matters of relationships, families and family law. 2. The efforts of good people working together to advance the mind, arouse the heart, and amuse the spirit.
