Is the internet is changing the way we form relationships? Thanks to Facebook we all have more friends than ever before. Could the web now be changing the very nature of the relationship between the sexes? Gathering together the candid confessions of people who have played away using websites dedicated to married affairs, the ground-breaking writer Catherine Hakim examines how the web is changing what it means to be a woman. Giving us a glimpse into the very heart of this secretive world she reveals where the balance of power between men and women is shifting. Attitudes are changing. The New Rules of Marriage reveals the steps that women can have their cake, and eat it too.