Starting an internet affair isn’t difficult, even if you’re meeting complete strangers. There are thousands of websites that can be used for meeting new people.

Beyond meeting strangers, there are the popular sites where communication with friends or lovers from the past is the central purpose. Friends Reunited created a platform for old school friends to get in touch with each other.

It is well documented that some of these communications became something more than a few laughs about the old days. Today, it is possible to locate just about anyone you may have known from the past, and millions of people are doing exactly that.

It’s easy, and it’s got all the potential of gunpowder, as old lovers light the blue-touch paper of licentious fireworks.

In days of yore, one may have held a few delicate sentiments about our ex lovers from decades ago. And there it stayed, locked in vault, with nothing more than an occasional romantic thought about what our yesteryear partners were up to.

These days, those thoughts and feelings have the potential to grow, and in some cases grow out of control.

It’s all so romantic. The way we were: young, vibrant, full of hope for the future. What happened to all that? Now it’s a mortgage, bills, kids, humdrum, and some hard, cold reality with responsibilities left and right. And then suddenly, out of nowhere, a blast from the past lands in the Inbox. A surge, and you’re suddenly twenty-one again, and all that went with those exciting years.

This is how it begins: an e-mail, a text, a phone call. Of course, the real danger is just how easy it will be to pick up the pieces from one’s past relationships. The ex-lovers have no need to fish around trying to find some common ground, it’s already there, and for the unguarded this is a quicksand in the waiting.

And thus the tragedy begins, born out of ignorance, selfishness, and need, the momentum gains and the quicksand pulls. Someone is going to get hurt. Someone is being betrayed. But it’s fun, and exciting, and the licentious couple just don’t care because they’re having a great time.

Naturally, the internet is only a facilitator in all of this, and one could argue that an affair would have started with or without it. Maybe. But there has never been a time when it has been so easy, so effortless, to communicate in secrecy, and more than this, to rekindle those old flames from the past.

“I love the originality of this recording.” Moira Blomfield – Hypnotherapist