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  • For example, in cases of infidelity (which researchers are now calling extra-marital involvement, partially to take into account non-sexual relationships where partners are emotionally involved with another and lying about the other relationship) and aggression (intimate partner violence), divorce may be viewed as a positive life decision for one of the involved partners.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Ashley Reich 2012

  • The last time we had a surplus, the standing president was having extra-marital affairs while literally inside the oval office.

    Dan Treadway: Now More Than Ever America Needs a Baller in Chief Dan Treadway 2012

  • Republican Senator John Ensign of Nevada resigned in April as he was facing an ethics investigation into evidence that he convinced his parents to pay money to try to cover up an extra-marital affair he had with a campaign aide - the wife of one of the senator's staff members.

    Congressman Admits Lying About Lewd Photograph 2011

  • The Church's formula for AIDS prevention is based on the moral principle of marital fidelity: celibacy until wedded and avoidance of any extra-marital sex thereafter.

    Edward Flattau: The Vatican's Unsupportable Logic Edward Flattau 2011

  • Meanwhile, Hopps enjoyed a 19-year-old extra-marital squeeze named Eve Babitz, who is the naked woman playing chess with Duchamp in the famous photo taken at his Pasadena retrospective.

    When the West Coast Went Pop Peter Plagens 2011

  • The last time we had a surplus, the standing president was having extra-marital affairs while literally inside the oval office.

    Dan Treadway: Now More Than Ever America Needs a Baller in Chief Dan Treadway 2012

  • In Billy Wilder's "The Apartment," Jack Lemmon plays Bud Baxter, an insurance-company clerk who is conflicted about some of the things he must do to get ahead, notably, lending out his residence to his superiors for extra-marital trysts.

    Hollywood's Favorite Villain Rachel Dodes 2011

  • His father, Eric, was a Navy veteran, and his mother, Yvonne, a bookkeeper who would eventually commit suicide during an extra-marital rendezvous.

    Christopher Hitchens Dead: Legendary Writer Dies At Age 62 The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

  • The wife of First Minister Peter Robinson left politics amid revelations about her extra-marital affair with a then teenage businessman.

    Judge rules Iris Robinson injunction application to be considered in private 2011

  • "In the holy religion of Islam the methods to prove extra-marital affairs is very hard," he said, explaining that a conviction for murder weighed more heavily than one for adultery.

    An adulteress and murder could in theory be stoned, Iran judiciary says Thomas Erdbrink 2010

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