...secrets with people they'll probably never meet -- and in the process denying their spouse the same intimacies. Marlene Maheu, author of "Infidelity on the Internet" (Source Books, 2001), agrees that such relationships can be a "serious...

...simply suggested standards, and don't have the teeth of a formal statement by an established medical association. Marlene Maheu, a licensed psychologist in California who has studied the evolution of online therapy, doesn't see it as a significantly...