Facebook Driving Up Divorce Numbers

"GREAT BRITAIN:

Facebook is driving divorce numbers up   

December 24, 2009, 4:00 a.m.

The boom in online networks like Facebook is driving up the UK divorce rate.

Why? This gives the couple a better chance to uncover affairs. In every fifth breakup, an escalating Facebook Flirt is currently given as a reason for divorce - tendency increasing, ...

"The most common cause seems to be people inappropriately chatting about sex with people they shouldn't be," said Divorce-Online executive director Mark Keenan."

 

Prisoner Behind Glass

Craze of Love – Windows Live ~ by me 07.08.2005 - (often renamed)

He is starting to live where she lives on his screen
The perfect flower he created in his heart
The one that could not hurt him with her thorns
He washes the blood off his pierced hands with the dew on her petals.
Dangerous medicine for his not half cured wounds

He desperately embraces the danger
Her soft warm body, hot kisses
Painted on glass.

A prospector, insane through lonesomeness
Craving for the gold of her hair
While the gentle touch of her fingers creates
Only letters.

Words like honey drops are bitter manna for his starving soul
Stabbing his heart like poisoned knives.
Until he seeks ease
Diving into the quiet lake of her eyes
Secretly wishing to drown there when they close
So he would not have to ever leave.

He keeps walking the impossible forbidden path to her heart
In treacherous certainty that one day he will live there.

He delivers himself to these tender hands
To let the well known suffering they cause cover all those others he cannot control
The welcome pain, that tells him he is alive.

© ~ Neila ~ S. R. 2005

Substitute

She was always there. She knew, how much he needed her to listen, care, reassure him. He was used to her, he loved her. There was no way she could not love him, however much she denied it. He lived with her for the better part of his life, and after a while forgot the fact this part of his life was not real.

She was there for him and only for him. It was so easy to ignore the others that were there with her as well. The only reality  for him was her presence, her love for him, and the fact she could never leave him, never let him down, as others had done before.

He would never lose her. Their relationship would never change. She would always be near him - only a mouse click away.