Growing numbers of couples are coming, having discovered that an affair was being conducted via a mobile. Even in the absence of extra-marital activity, the intrusion of the trilling phone into the evenings and weekends has put countless relationships under strain, according to Relate. It can be a symptom of being workaholic, putting pressure on family life. She said the uncovering of an affair using mobile technology was the latest twist in an old tale. She said each advance in telecommunications technology had increased the ways in which an affair could be discovered.
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France Telecom eventually backed down and replaced the last four numbers with asterisks, potentially saving millions of marriages. The Relate spokesperson said that, while many of the stories seemed amusing from the outside, discovering a betrayal in this way was devastating. Of course, it is always terrible to discover an affair. But it is much worse to find out in this technical way, than being told face to face. But she said that, so long as affairs took place, electronic discovery was inevitable.