Say your marriage is on the rocks, and to help repair the relationship, you and your husband decide to see a couple’s therapist. The therapist suggests that the two of you begin to see her separately, so she can work with each of you individually. Then she bangs your husband and advises you to get a divorce.

Nightmare.

That’s exactly what happened to one couple in Texas who went to see Sheila Loven, who is now on trial for sexual assault for the incident. The Arlington couple had no idea that she was using therapy to collect their deepest secrets and use them to manipulate the wife into leaving and the husband into sleeping with her.

It's easier than ever to have what some might call an "emotional affair." Perhaps these things used to belong strictly to the province of a good friend or coworker -- but now, given technology, it can be pretty much anyone. Doesn't matter if they live in another city or country. Doesn't matter if you've even met that person. It's easy to find someone online, and begin the onslaught of emails, text messages, and IMs that lead to ... something. It's not physical. But it's not innocent either. One woman describes her devastation and struggle with finding out about her "perfect" husband's "affair" that wasn't quite an affair.

As Chinese New Year approaches, a new fad is sweeping the country -- and it has nothing to do with snakes. Nope, it seems that ‘rentable boyfriends’ are popping up to fill a big need for single Chinese ladies…

Get your mind out of the gutter! Not that kind of need. What these girls need is for their families to stop pestering them to get married. The Telegraph reports: “"It can be a particularly miserable experience for girls who don’t bring home a boyfriend, leading to endless questions about why they’re not dating and where their life’s going. In this sexist society, ladies over 27 who aren’t hitched are labeled 'leftover women.'”

"Sex Confessions" is a series featuring your naughtiest bedroom secrets and fantasies. Some will sound familiar, others may give you ideas, some will turn you on, and some are dark and twisted. You might want to sit down for this.

Some people do really bad things and feel terrible about them. Others not so much. Like 40-something-year-old Kimberly* for example. She had sex with her husband's best friend Lou*. Actually, she has been for around six months and she continues to have sex with him all behind her husband's back. But both she and Lou feel as if this should be no big deal because the husband made it clear he has no interest in having sex with her. I'm handing it over to Kimberly to explain.

Poor Manti Te'o. After the football player had his "girlfriend," the one who supposedly died of leukemia, exposed as an elaborate hoax, everyone is wondering: Could Manti have been this naive? Or could he have been in on it to gain positive media attention? Manti admitted:

This is incredibly embarrassing to talk about, but over an extended period of time, I developed an emotional relationship with a woman I met online ... To realize that I was the victim of what was apparently someone's sick joke and constant lies was, and is, painful and humiliating.

Yikes. Sure is. But how could a grown man fall for such a scheme? Well, it's not that uncommon. In fact, I have a friend who may have fallen for something similar. After a year of "dating" a guy she was in constant contact with online, she finally decided he was a fraud.

Here are six ways you might know your online relationship is fake.

In a marriage, it's never OK to lie, right? We are supposed to be honest ALL the time. But let’s face it, there are some things we don’t want to tell him. And that’s OK. There are many things he's just better off not knowing.

For instance, has he ever asked you if something makes him look fat? If yes, then trust me, even if the answer IS yes, it's NEVER yes. Never. Always no. Repeat after me.

What about the times he wants sex and you just don’t? Do you ever say how tired you are or that you feel a little sick or that you had a long day even when none of it is true? If so, then you have lied. Admit it. We all do. Here are five lies it’s OK to tell your man once in a while:

If your relationship is on the rocks, and you want to make it up to your S.O., do you A) talk it over, maybe go to couples' counseling, B) get them some fancy new bling, or C) steal an ex's engagement ring and gift it to your spouse? Apparently a Pennsylvania man named Donald Albritton thought he'd go with option C. No joke!

Local news reports say Albritton initially went to his ex-girlfriend, Megan White's house on Thanksgiving to thank her for not filing a police report against his teen daughter, who was believed to have stolen Ugg Boots and a Juicy Couture bracelet from White. But then, when White took off her engagement ring to make Thanksgiving dinner, Albritton picked up the ring and walked away with it, witnesses told police. According to police reports, Albritton decided to give White's ring to his wife in an effort to "patch up his marriage." Insaaaaaane! Wow. You can't make this stuff up, folks.

I've heard some nutty theories in my time, but this one takes the prize. A new book, Challenging Casanova, is claiming that whole thing about men wanting to screw as many women as humanly possible before they die is a load of hogwash. That, in fact, the majority of dudes just want to be with one woman. And no, this isn't an article by The Onion. The book's author (a man) is quite serious. But yet I'm laughing. Sorry.

Well, if true, this would certainly be good news, right? We ladies could relax a bit. We could actually have kids without worrying our guy is gonna replace us with a younger version one day, cause that never happens, right? We certainly don't have to worry about that hot coworker of his. He always says he never notices her and maybe he's telling the truth! (More laughter.) Well, let's check out what this highly deluded optimistic author has to say ...