Even if you're happily married and certain you made the right choice to leave a former love, you still might be curious as to what has happened to your ex. It's human nature to wonder about these things. Maybe, you like to believe that your exes are still pining for you and unable to find happiness after ditching you. Or you would like to think he or she moved on and found as much happiness as you have. Whatever your motivation, you have many ways to check on exes these days. There's Facebook and Twitter, e-mail and video calls.
There's nothing wrong with quenching your curiosity by using one of these outlets to find out about a past love. But some married people cross the line. They start up a relationship with the ex again and risk entering into either an emotional affair or even a physical one. One way to prevent this kind of risky behavior is to consider what is driving your curiosity. If your curiosity is motivated by the feeling that you want to know what happened to the "one who got away," then you should avoid this person and work on your own marriage. If your curiosity is simply based on a desire to know what has happened to the person, then you should be safe. But you must be very honest with yourself. You don't want to cheat on your spouse, because coming back from an affair is sometimes impossible. And you will have lost your marriage. Why are you cyberstalking your ex? Why do you really want to know about this person's life now? Do you think married people should even find out about exes?