'The thing that has amazed me most about other bloggers is that they are all just ordinary people trying to make the most of their situations,' she says.

'Blogging was a safe way to find people who could relate to my circumstances without it affecting my ordinary life.' For her, infidelity blogging isn't a brazen attempt to flaunt unfaithfulness but is instead inspired by the need to know you're normal, and not alone. 'Most of my friends know my husband so I couldn't talk to them about my affair,' she confides. Shelly's blog is one of a growing number of 'infidelity blogs' which attract a loyal online following.Д¬allie, a wife and mother who blogs anonymously about her affair with a married man, agrees. What makes Shelly distinct is the fact that she is cheating on her husband and writes candidly about it online (at ) under a pseudonym. Marriages that have gone off the boil are also not a rarity вЂ“ therapist Shirley P Glass states in her book Not Just Friends that one or both parties in 50 per cent of all couples will be unfaithful, and adultery remains the most common reason cited by divorcing couples. Even happily married couples might wince in recognition at those moments of irrational fury that can accompany long-term relationships. Even the way he moves in bed makes me want to stab myself in the eye with a fork.'ДЇork-induced eye injuries notwithstanding, these admissions don't necessarily mark Shelly's marriage out as unusual. If he leaves the dishes expectantly in the sink, it makes me furious. Our love-making is performed mostly out of habit.

But it isn't exciting or even interesting any more. Maybe that's the problem вЂ“ things are fine. 'I am married, rather begrudgingly, to a man who no longer makes me feel anything,' writes Shelly in her blog, Confessions of a Wayward Wife.

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