Today's society seems to be steadily having a disturbing effect on our marriages. We sadly take many of these for granted. These things we take for granted slowly eat into the fabric of our marriages. Our intention here's to look at one such problem so we can guard against it.

Everyone is aware that there are challenges that face marriages. What everyone may not be aware of is that a lot of times, we invite these complications upon ourselves. One of the issues we would be examine is emotional infidelity. This may not seem to be something really important. Many of us may claim not to fully know what emotional infidelity is so we would try to explain what it is.

The meaning of emotional infidelity is just intimacy with a person that is not your partner. Such intimacy is emotional and so doesn't extend to physical intimacy. Words are generally the medium through which emotional infidelity is established. This sheds more light on the absence of physical intimacy. From here, we proceed to a major issue.

Lot's of us would claim not to be guilty of emotional infidelity so we would look at the matter from another angle. I would ask certain questions. We would be able to determine if your are really guilty or not from the answers you give.

Do you have a Facebook account? If not Facebook, are you regular on any social media network? This is the first question. I'm assuming your answer to the above was yes. We can now move to the next question.

How regularly are you on these networks?

You may want to know that a staggering 700 billion minutes are spent on Facebook monthly. This is pretty worrying. The same study went on to say that these minutes are actually minutes taken from our real life and in lot's of cases face to face relationship. Put this in context and you would understand why it is troubling. I would now ask one other question.

Just think about it and make us know who you spend all of your time on the social network with?

You certainly can't suggest that you spend all that time with your partner. That might only be the case if your partner is in a different location from you. Nevertheless, the more obtainable thing is that we have other folks we spend time with online.

The whole thing actually gets worse when you consider that we now have video chats. It is not unusual for you to find individuals going nude for the benefit of their online acquaintance. Would you say a married person who engages in such an act with an individual different from his or her spouse is guilty or not? It's called emotional infidelity simply because there is no physical intimacy.

There truly is a lot to be done to correct this, which work might fall to just you. If you do not want to wait for your spouse but want to go ahead and find out how to save your marriage alone, do the following:

- Make sure that you have quality time for your spouse

- Be care of the length of time you spend on social networks

- Carefully regulate the content of your communication on social media networks

- Give your spouse something interesting enough to pull them away from the social media networks

- Your spouse needs to know you're always there for them

I regard this as a battle and only those ready to save their marriages would be able to fight it.