DID YOU KNOW...

• that only 5% of affairs result in marriage between the affair partners?
• that an estimated 10% of all children born to married women are raised by husbands who aren't the biological father - but don't know it?
• that 5% of all married men and women cheat in any given year?

If not, welcome to 'THE 50-MILE RULE', a place to find sane - and non-judgmental - information on adultery. Get your adultery questions answered (just click 'Ask the Adulteress' below) while sampling the information contained in THE 50-MILE RULE: Your Guide to Infidelity and Extramarital Etiquette, available from Ten-Speed Press right now!

What makes THE 50-MILE RULE different from other books? After all, there are all kinds of books on how to find/keep/train/change/dump spouses and dates...you've probably read some in a desperate attempt to get some perspective on your marriage. There are however, very few books that deal with the relationships between ALL the parties in an extramarital affair.

Others might take a strict 'thou shalt not' attitude. The offender - maybe you - is often depicted as being a wayward child with a mean streak, who must be taken in hand and firmly shown the error of his or her ways by the patient, ever-charitable spouse who's clearly the best possible mate available (since, after all, she or he got there first.)

Chances are, however, that you're NOT that wayward child (or jerk, or whatever). Chances are you've been involved in a reasonably long-term marriage and just want OUT, but can't see a way to GET out without jeopardizing your children and/or income. For you, an affair might be the only sane alternative to ending the social relationship on which you - and your kids - may be dependent.

That's where THE 50-MILE RULE comes in. You'll learn -

• why you married in the first place
• why the delights of marriage fade
• why you may be tempted to stray
• and how to go about it while minimizing
  your chances of exposure (no guarantees, of course!)

And yes, we deal with the aftermath too...so let THE 50-MILE RULE teach you how to keep USS AFFAIR skimming happily along the Extramarital Sea!