In the current crisis of infidelity, men are more likely to fall in love with their affair partners-in the past, they were more likely to have uncomplicated sexual liaisons. When sex and emotional involvement combine, as they do increasingly in these new workplace affairs with professional colleagues, the threat to the marriage is more catastrophic-much more so than traditional affairs used to be. In fact, secret emotional attachments outside a marriage can be just as great a betrayal as extramarital sex. In the new infidelity, one doesn't have to have sex to be unfaithful. Glass's compelling clinical portraits and statistics argue for a radical redefinition of infidelity. We are right to be wary when we hear our partners assert, 'I'm telling you, we're just friends.'ĭr. Good people in good marriages-men and women who say they're happily married-are unwittingly crossing the line between platonic friendship and romantic love. NOT 'Just Friends': Protect Your Relationship from Infidelity and Heal the Trauma of Betrayal (The Free Press January 13th, 2003 $25.00) reveals that, in this crisis, today's workplace is the foremost breeding ground for extramarital affairs. Glass, Ph.D., whom the New York Times has called the 'godmother of infidelity research.' Full of astonishing revelations, NOT 'Just Friends' draws on more than two decades of original studies and hundreds of clinical cases to document the new crises of infidelity. NOT 'Just Friends' is the long-awaited, groundbreaking new book by Shirley P.

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